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.
Previous article in this series: June 2013, p. 388. As stated at the conclusion of our June editorial, we intend with this article to conclude our response to various articles found in the Mid-America Journal of Theology (MJT) of the past few years. What is so troubling about these articles is that they make clear that their authors (who represent where most of Reformed theology is at these days, we fear) are committed not simply to promoting common grace and the free offer of the gospel, but...
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