From Condition to State: Critical Reflections on Cornelius Van Til's Doctrine of Common Grace

Authors

Jan van Vliet, Dordt CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 1999

Department

Business Administration

Keywords

Cornelius Van Til, Abraham Kuyper, grace, reformed theology

Abstract

What Cornelius Van Til calls the "common grace problem" has received considerable attention in the theological discussions of, especially, the first half of the twentieth century. Beginning with an exhaustive (three volume) attempt by Abraham Kuyper to interpret all the implications of this doctrine for the individual and for society and through the various refinements of the Amsterdam School to the suggested overhaul by Cornelius Van Til, the doctrine remains an unsettled one upon which there is no mutual agreement.

Source Publication Title

Westminster Theological Journal

Publisher

Westminster Theological Seminary

Volume

61

Issue

1

First Page

73

Recommended Citation

van Vliet, J. (1999). From Condition to State: Critical Reflections on Cornelius Van Til's Doctrine of Common Grace. Westminster Theological Journal, 61 (1), 73. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/faculty_work/1272