Dr. Abraham Kuyper and Common Grace

After the seventeenth century there is very little development of the doctrine of sin and grace along the line of Reformed thinking. A miserable picture the eighteenth century offers. Rationalism proudly lifted up its head and claimed to possess the sole right of supremacy in the realm of theology. It dismissed out of its realm as unknowable whatever was logically and rationally incomprehensible; it laughed the miraculous out of court and God out of the universe; it "proved" that revelation is...