The Notion of Preparatory Grace in the Puritans

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal Vol. 41, No. 1 56 the historical development process became the focus of attention. The philosophies of Hegel and Darwin were merely different forms of this way of thinking. Finally, then, historicism arose at the end of the nineteenth century: There was never a fixed truth and there had never been one. Everything is in flux. However, if there is not any truth outside of man, then—according to the people’s demand—the truth can be found only in man...