Common Grace, Natural Law and Eschatology
This is part four of our series entitled Christ and Culture and marks the end of our first round. Bill Dennison, Darryl Hart, Doug Wilson and Nelson Kloosterman each speak about their views of common grace, natural law, and eschatology. This series of programs strays from the typical Christ the Center format. This project is an asynchronous debate in the vein of the Counterpoints series published by InterVarsity Press. In future episodes each participant will have the opportunity to criticize the other views.
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Books and other media from the participants
Bill Dennison
- Paul’s Two-Age Construction and Apologetics
- The Young Bultmann: Context for His Understanding of God, 1884-1925
Darryl Hart
- A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State
- Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestant
- Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham
Nelson Kloosterman
- The Ten Commandments: Manual for the Christian Life by Joachim Douma (Kloosterman trans.)
Doug Wilson
- Collision: Is Christianity Good for the World?: Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson
- Five Cities that Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History
- The Deluded Atheist: A Response to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion
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Related Posts
- Vocation, Education and Fine Arts - The Christ and culture discussion continues with Dennison, Hart, Kloosterman and Wilson.
- Christ and Culture: Politics - The debate on approaches to culture continues with a look at politics.
- Christ and Culture: Introductory Remarks - What is culture and what does it mean for the church?
- Wilson’s Response - Doug Wilson responds to Hart, Kloosterman and Dennison.
- Dennison’s Response - William Dennison responds to the other first round comments.
I’ve never heard anyone present a dual-sanction model to common grace as Doug Wilson did. I thought the differences on common grace were very interesting.
I also thought it interesting that Kloosterman said that the Noahic Cov was “thoroughly redemptive”.
Wilson’s take on Common Grace was certainly unique – but he did bring up a good point about the “back-bone” of grace. I think that Van Til’s emphasis on antithesis and the role of cg in making a distinction is the better rout to go, but it does not address specifically the examples Wilson brought up.
I am finding it interesting how between subjects I tend to side with different men. Will I be more confused at the end of this – I wonder??
Thanks again for the great program!