HE SHINES IN ALL THAT'S FAIR CULTURE AND COMMON GRACE - $10

ISBN: 0802821111

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Richard Mouw brings the historic insights of Calvinism about the fallen world to audience of the turn of the twenty-first century. He examines long-standing Reformed arguments between those who champion the doctrine of common grace and those who emphasize an antithesis between the church and the world.

Defenders of common grace account for the goodness in the world by insisting that God's grace goes beyond salvation to more general gifts of beauty, virtue, and excellence to all human beings, including those who do not believe in God. Those who reject the doctrine of common grace, on the other hand, emphasize the fallenness of the world and the need for the church to maintain a dramatic contrast to it.

He insists that we have much to learn from thinkers who have rejected the idea of common (non-saving) grace, also defends the traditional common grace teachings, showing how they provide an important basis for wrestling with key challenges in present-day culture