The Death of Confessional Calvinism in Scottish Presbyterianism (3)

Providence and Sin More serious is Professor Macleod's condemnation, in his book, Behold Your God (BYG), of Hoeksema's doctrine of providence as "virtually blasphemous" (p. 131). Macleod is here commenting on Hoeksema's criticism of common grace's deviation from the Reformed doctrine of providence. Hoeksema is treating the question of the relation of the fall of man into sin and death to the providence of God. He is setting forth the truth that the one purpose of God with the creation was its...