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129 November 2019 Book Reviews With some reliance on Abra- ham Kuyper, which Bavinck acknowledges (not being a plagia- rist himself), Bavinck diagnoses especially three ethical sicknesses (“pathologies”). In this section, there is a penetrating exposure of “temptations.” In this discussion of the ethi- cal condition of humanity before conversion, Bavinck proposes a theory of common grace, which theory, however, is strictly limit- ed, and determined to preserve the truth of total depravity....