The Issue With Kuyper's Common Grace

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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David Engelsma explains Abraham Kuyper's doctrine of "Common Grace" and how it has impacted modern evangelicalism.

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0:00.0	Welcome once again to the conversations that matter Podcast. I'm your host John Harris and we have a wonderful discussion, I believe, for you today.
0:19.0	A helpful discussion, I think an informative one. We are going to be talking about Abraham Kuiper a little
0:25.4	bit and for those who don't know Abraham Kuiper is a popular theologian he
0:30.6	died some years ago but he's had an influence on
0:34.4	present, reformed evangelicalism, to a large extent.
0:37.4	And we're just going to get a little background on him and then
0:40.2	how his ideas, especially his contribution of common grace, has made its way into
0:44.8	reformed Evangelicalism.
0:46.4	And to do that, I have with me Professor Emeritus, David and Gelsma with me, and he has written a number of books.
0:55.8	You can go to the Reformed Free Publishing Association.
0:59.2	Their website is RFP.org, if you want to find out more about his books. And he was a pastor for 25 years and served at the Protestant Reform Seminary. Like I said, he wrote a book, Professor and Gelsma, that I know I read, and this is what spurred me to want to have you on, called Christianizing the world. And you said things about Kuiper that I didn't hear
1:25.3	anyone else in the mainstream that I was reading say about Kuiper and I was
1:29.0	reading Richard Mao and I was I was trying to read some of Kuiper's biographies and things and
1:33.0	understanding Kuiper and and some of the things you said really hit me so I
1:38.1	appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to talk to us about this thank you
1:42.2	It's a privilege to us about this. Thank you.
1:43.0	It's a privilege to be with you. The subject is worthwhile.
1:47.0	Well, let me start with this then.
1:51.0	Kuiper, you know a lot about Kuiper. For those who don't know anything about Abraham Kuiper, who was he and then what contributions did he make to theology?
2:02.0	Abraham Kuiper was an outstanding theologian and political figure in the Netherlands
2:08.0	about the turn of the 20th century and he accomplished with the help of especially Herman Bob Inc. his
2:17.2	colleague something that was extraordinary in the churches in the Netherlands. The mainstream
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