Table of Contents
General Editors' Introduction ix
Editors' Introduction xiii
Volume Introduction xxviii
Abbreviations xxxix
Chapter 1 The Purpose of this Doctrinal Inquiry 1
Chapter 2 The Problem to Be Solved 10
Chapter 3 The Problem Further Elucidated 21
Chapter 4 The Solution according to Unbelievers 29
Chapter 5 Why Is this Solution Unsatisfactory? 38
Chapter 6 The Solution from the Roman Catholic Side 47
Chapter 7 The Reformed Point of Departure 58
Chapter 8 The Tempering of Sin 67
Chapter 9 The Anabaptist Solution 76
Chapter 10 The Unbridled Operation of the Curse 85
Chapter 11 Common Grace Grounded in Creation 94
Chapter 12 Common Grace and Predestination 103
Chapter 13 Predestination in Connection with "All Things" 112
Chapter 14 The Connection between Predestination and Creation 122
Chapter 15 Triumph over Satan 131
Chapter 16 He Dwelt among Us 140
Chapter 17 He Dwelt among Israel 148
Chapter 18 Born of a Woman 156
Chapter 19 Jesus' Increase 164
Chapter 20 Jesus' Environment 172
Chapter 21 Jesus and Rome's Administration of Justice 180
Chapter 22 Jesus and the Preparation of the World 188
Chapter 23 Christ and World History 197
Chapter 24 The Fullness of Time 205
Chapter 25 Common Grace and the Life of Grace 213
Chapter 26 Preparatory Grace 222
Chapter 27 Immediate Regeneration 231
Chapter 28 Common Grace in Our Genealogy 240
Chapter 29 Common Grace in Our Upbringing 249
Chapter 30 Vocation and One's Lot in Life 257
Chapter 31 The Means of Grace 265
Chapter 32 The Effect of Particular Grace on Common Grace 273
Chapter 33 The Church as Institution and as Organism 282
Chapter 34 The National Church 290
Chapter 35 The Effect of the Church on the World 299
Chapter 36 A City Set on a Hill 308
Chapter 37 Common Grace in Sanctification 317
Chapter 38 The Grafting of the Wild Tree 326
Chapter 39 Moral Good in the Unregenerate 335
Chapter 40 Two Kinds of Self 344
Chapter 41 The Twofold Will 352
Chapter 42 It Is God Who Sanctifies Us 361
Chapter 43 Self-Purification 370
Chapter 44 The Conduct of Believers in the World 377
Chapter 45 A Necessary and Dangerous Dualism 385
Chapter 46 The Ordinary and the Extraordinary 394
Chapter 47 Common Grace and God's Providential Ordination 404
Chapter 48 The Counsel of God 415
Chapter 49 Transcendence and Immanence 424
Chapter 50 Providence and Creation 434
Chapter 51 Bound Yet Free 444
Chapter 52 God's Working through Means 453
Chapter 53 The Spiritual Forces of Evil 462
Chapter 54 The Manifestation of God's Wrath 471
Chapter 55 Second Nature 480
Chapter 56 The Tempering of the Curse 488
Chapter 57 Nature Is Not Irreligious 497
Chapter 58 Man and Animal 505
Chapter 59 Instinctive Action 513
Chapter 60 The Use of Means 522
Chapter 61 Against the Curse 532
Chapter 62 Rebuke and Wrath 539
Chapter 63 Death Is an Enemy to Be Opposed 545
Chapter 64 The Unholy Character of All Affliction 552
Chapter 65 Curse and Creation 559
Chapter 66 Derailment 566
Chapter 67 The Flood and the Ark 574
Chapter 68 Finding the Means 581
Chapter 69 Precautionary Measures 590
Chapter 70 Suffering as Solidarity 598
Chapter 71 The Vaccination against Cowpox (1) 606
Chapter 72 The Vaccination against Cowpox (2) 615
Chapter 73 Insurance 624
Chapter 74 Insurance (2) 633
Chapter 75 Insurance (3) 642
Chapter 76 Insurance (4) 650
Chapter 77 Insurance (5) 659
Chapter 78 Insurance (6) 667
Chapter 79 Insurance (7) 675
Chapter 80 Suffering and Guilt 683
Chapter 81 The Course of the Ages 692
Chapter 82 The Close of the Age 701
Chapter 83 The Manifestation of the Image of God 709
Chapter 84 The Two Spheres of Life Intermingled 718
Chapter 85 The Contact between the Spheres 727
Chapter 86 Common Grace and the Son of God 735
Chapter 87 The Elect to Eternal Life 743
Chapter 88 The Purpose of the Church on Earth 751
Chapter 89 Christian Civilization 759
Chapter 90 The Completion of Common Grace 767
Chapter 91 The Influences of Common Grace on Particular Grace 775
Bibliography 783
About Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) 786
About the Contributors 788
Subject/Author Index 790
Scripture Index 807
