Calvin’s Four Kinds of Grace

It is generally maintained by the defenders of the "doctrine of "Common Grace" that Calvin, the father of Reformed theology, also believed in a grace of God that was common to all mankind. They have even gone so far as to maintain that Calvin believed in four kinds of grace. They are enumerated as follows: Universal Common Grace, which God bestows on all creatures; General Grace, a grace which God bestows upon men as men; Covenant Grace, which is common to God's elect and all those who live in...