The Protestant Reformed Churches: Their beginnings (4): Common grace in the assemblies

This article examines the doctrinal controversy over common grace that divided the Christian Reformed Church in the 1920s, focusing on how protests against Herman Hoeksema and H. Danhof brought the issue before church assemblies and led to its official ecclesiastical adoption. Dykstra traces the fascinating and rapid progression from public theological debate in church publications to formal ecclesiastical decision-making, providing essential historical context for understanding the formation of the Protestant Reformed Churches.