The Janssen Case: Chapter 4 – The Basic Issue (2)

(In the last issue of Beacon Lights, we began a discussion of how common grace became an essential part of Dr. Janssen’s defense of his views of Scripture.  We discussed how important this whole issue of common grace was in the controversy, and we began to give some history of how common grace even appeared as an issue in the Christian Reformed Church.  We concluded with showing how Rev. Herman Hoeksema, even before the Janssen controversy, had begun to challenge and eventually deny common...