The Nature of the Visible Church

* * * * * * * * * * Now Calvinism has been the first movement of which we can say with some historical justification that it has seen the universal implications of the gospel ... we may say that in the so-called Kuyperian tradition (the reference here is to Kuyper's common grace, RH) the recreative power of Christ has made a major breakthrough in western civilization with respect to understanding man's cultural mandate. '6 ********** And for our relation to the world: the recognition that in...