Earlier this year I had the honor of moderating a panel discussion, “Common Grace, Community, and Culture,” at the Kuyper Conference at Calvin College and Seminary.

The discussion featured J. Daryl Charles, with whom I have the pleasure of coediting the Common Grace volumes in the Kuyper series, Vincent Bacote of Wheaton College, and Jessica Joustra of Redeemer University College and TU Kampen.

It was a wide-ranging and substantive discussion. The video is now available and mend it to you:

Volume 2 of Common Grace is now available, and features a new editors’ introduction focused on the relationship mon grace and the moral and social order (excerpted here). Kuyper’s doctrine mon grace is multifaceted, but in part he intended it to provide an explanatory framework and a basis for the engagement and development of culture and civilization in a world marked by sin and corruption. Common grace helps preserve the possibility and actuality of munity, which otherwise would be destroyed by sin and alienation.

In this way the Common Grace trilogy (which will pleted next plements the Pro Rege trilogy (the third volume of which just appeared, and which is briefly introduced here). As Kuyper puts it, “Pro Rege can be seen as a sequel to Common Grace. Whereas in the latter we showed how also the life of the nations both before and after his appearing owed all its beauty and nobility to the grace of God who passion on them, so in Pro Rege we have attempted to demonstrate how the kingship of Christ also governs the course of all human life.”