A Word from Bob For the past two years, I have been examining first-hand, primary resources written by Reformed theologians on the topic of common grace. For a blog post that collates all of that research, see: Common Grace and Biblical Counseling: Wisdom from...
A Word from Bob You’re reading Part 2 of a three-part blog mini-series on Cornelius Van Til and common grace. In Part 1, I focused on Van Til’s assessment of Kuyper and Bavinck: Van Til, Kuyper, Bavinck, and Biblical Counselors: An Assessment. In that post, I asked...
A Word from Bob No. I do not think John Calvin was an integrationist, even though, as we’ll see in today’s post, Calvin valued and used common grace insights from non-believers. Some biblical counselors are using the word “integrationist” (or “neo-integrationist”) to...
A Word from Bob You’re reading the first of a three-part blog mini-series on Cornelious Van Til and common grace. In Part 2, I focus on Van Til’s beliefs about common grace and how they relate to the use or non-use of extra-biblical resources in biblical...
Common Grace and the Noetic Effect of Sin In Reformed Christian theology, unregenerate persons are totally depraved and all of their thinking is under the noetic (mind) impact of sin. Yet, also in Reformed thinking, unregenerate/unsaved persons can make valid...
A Word from Bob There is much discussion these days in the modern biblical counseling world concerning how the Reformed doctrine of common grace relates to the biblical counselor’s attitude toward, the use or non-use of, the engagement with, and the evaluation of...
