Common Grace: God’s Gifts for a Fallen World, Volume 3
God’s Gifts for a Fallen World
Common Grace is often considered Abraham Kuyper’s crowning work, an exploration of how God expresses grace even to the unsaved. Kuyper firmly believed that though many people in the world will remain unconverted, God’s grace is still shown to the world as a whole.
In this third and final volume of Common Grace, Kuyper brings his argument to its logical completion by turning to practical implications. With detailed explorations on matters of church and state, family, upbringing, and society, Kuyper provides practical guidance for all who desire to flourish within the created order, a world in which God’s grace is generously given to all.
All three volumes of Common Grace can be purchased together in this 3-volume bundle.
Praise for Common Grace
Abraham Kuyper’s Common Grace is founded on a deep devotion to the notions of God’s sovereignty and our obligation to participate in the divine call to be obedient to the lordship of Jesus Christ in all areas of life. The release of this multi-volume series is timely because many Christians these days—Wesleyans, Baptists, Lutherans, Catholics, Mennonites, and others beyond the boundaries of Reformed/Presbyterian life and thought—are looking for resources for equipping Christians to find alternatives to the various ‘world-flight’ spiritualities that have long afflicted the broader Christian community. This work gives us a much-needed opportunity to absorb Kuyper’s insights about God’s marvelous designs for human cultural life.
—Richard J. Mouw, professor of faith and public life, Fuller Theological Seminary
Abraham Kuyper was a profound theologian, an encyclopedic thinker, and a deeply spiritual man who believed that it is the believer’s task ‘to know God in all his works.’ In a day when secular science is seeking to establish hegemony over all knowing, and when postmodern art is threatening to bring an end to art, Kuyper’s solid, biblical insights can help to restore perspective and sanity to these two critical areas of human life.
—Chuck Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship and Colson Center for Christian Worldview
God’s redemption is as wide and high and deep as the expanse of his creation. This is the central message of Abraham Kuyper that has been heard anew by a generation of young evangelicals who have a new appreciation for the importance of Christian culture-making. This book is a wonderful way to meet Kuyper face to face and hear from him firsthand. I look forward to pointing friends and students to this wonderful anthology. It’s just what we need.
—James K. A. Smith, The Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview, Calvin College
The Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology
Lexham Press is pleased to announce the publication of a major series of new translations of Kuyper’s writings in public theology. Created in partnership with the Abraham Kuyper Translation Society and the Acton Institute, the Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology will mark a historic moment in Kuyper studies, and we hope it will deepen and enrich the church’s interest and engagement in public theology.
Contents
- Editors’ Introduction
- Volume Introduction by Vincent E. Bacote
- Too Long Forgotten
- Preserved in the World
- Civil Society
- Government Exists Because of Sin
- The Institutional Church Exists Because of Sin
- Government Also Exists among the Heathen
- Government Stands outside Special Revelation
- Government Is the Servant of God
- The Institution of Government
- Government outside Revelation
- Government and the People
- The Rights of the People
- Church and State (1)
- Church and State (2)
- Church and State (3)
- Church and State (4)
- Church and State (5)
- Church and State (6)
- Church and State (7)
- Church and State (8)
- Church and State (9)
- Church and State (10)
- Church and State (11)
- Church and State (12)
- Church and State (13)
- Church and State (14)
- Church and State (15)
- Church and State (16)
- Church and State (17)
- Church and State (18)
- Church and State (19)
- Church and State (20)
- Church and State (21)
- Church and State (22)
- Church and State (23)
- Church and State (24)
- Church and State (25)
- Church and State (26)
- Church and State (27)
- Church and State (28)
- The Family (1)
- The Family (2)
- The Family (3)
- The Family (4)
- The Family (5)
- The Family (6)
- The Family (7)
- The Family (8)
- The Family (9)
- The Family (10)
- The Family (11)
- Upbringing (1)
- Upbringing (2)
- Upbringing (3)
- Upbringing (4)
- Upbringing (5)
- Society (1)
- Society (2)
- Society (3)
- Society (4)
- Society (5)
- Science (1)
- Science (2)
- Science (3)
- Science (4)
- Science (5)
- Art (1)
- Art (2)
- Art (3)
- Art (4)
- Art (5)
- Title: Common Grace: God’s Gifts for a Fallen World, Volume 3
- Author: Abraham Kuyper
- Translators: Nelson D. Kloosterman and Ed M. van der Maas
- Volume Editors: J. Daryl Charles & Jordan J. Ballor
- Series Editors: Melvin Flikkema & Jordan J. Ballor
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2020
- Page Count: 704
- Format: Logos Digital, Hardcover
- Trim Size: 7x10
- ISBN: 9781577996705
Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. He founded the Free University in Amsterdam and served as a professor of theology. At the invitation of B. B. Warfield, Kuyper traveled to the United States to deliver the Stone Lectures at Princeton and address Reformed congregations in Michigan and Iowa.
Kuyper studied at the University of Leiden, and received his doctorate there in 1863. He became a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church in 1863, and consistently called for the separation of church and state. He also led a secession from the Dutch Reformed Church and united several disparate Reformed churches in the Netherlands.
Kuyper also led an active political life. He served as a member of Parliament in the Netherlands beginning in 1874 and served as prime minister from 1901–1905.
Abraham Kuyper was instrumental in the development of Neocalvinism, and is remembered for his articulation of common grace and for popularizing the notion of a Reformed worldview. He has influenced such notable figures as Francis Schaeffer, Cornelius Van Til, Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Chuck Colson.
Some of Kuyper’s publications, which are available in Logos, include Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art, The Antithesis between Symbolism and Revelation, and Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles.