Calvin, Hoeksema, and the Free Offer (3)

Kenneth Koole defends Herman Hoeksema and the Protestant Reformed Churches' rejection of common grace and the free offer of the gospel against contemporary Reformed theologians who promote these doctrines as consistent with historic Calvinism. The article argues that the numerical and theological decline of mainline Reformed churches stems not from insufficient emphasis on common grace, but from a departure from sovereign particular saving grace and biblical antithesis. This is part of an ongoing polemical response to articles in the Mid-America Journal of Theology that characterize the PRC's position as hyper-Calvinistic.