Book Reviews

Common Grace and relative. Some answer this question by speaking of a certain mitigation of the depravity of the human nature, which mitigation is sometimes explained in terms of a distinction between total depravity and absolute depravity.86 Some speak of the fact that, if it had not been for common grace which God showed to the world immediately after the fall, the creation would have returned to a void, and man would have become a beast or a devil. 87 John Murray adds one other aspect to...