Wisdom and Wonder: Common Grace in Science and Art

“If the believer's God is at work in this world, then in this world the believer's hand must take hold of the plow, and the name of the Lord must be glorified in that activity as well.”

Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch Reformed theologian politician, elaborated on the doctrine of common grace, a theology of public service and cultural engagement of Christians' shared humanity with the rest of the world.

Includes a Foreword by Gabe Lyons and Jon Tyson and an Introduction by Vincent E. Bacote

About the Author

Dr. Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian, philosopher, and politician. As leader of the Anti-Revolutionary Party in the Netherlands, he served as Prime Minister of his country from 1901-1905. He occupied himself with the task of reconstructing the social structures of his native land on the basis of its Calvinistic heritage in almost every area of life. He developed Neo-Calvinism, which emphasizes the sovereignty of Jesus over all mental pursuits and supports the idea that there is a grace given by God to all things in order to sustain the continued unfolding of creation.

About the Translator

Nelson D. Kloosterman is professor of ethics at Mid-America Reformed Seminary, where he has taught since 1984.

About the Editors

Jordan J. Ballor (DTheol, University of Zurich) is a research fellow at the Acton Institute and serves as executive editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality. He is author of Ecumenical Babel: Confusing Economic Ideology and the Church's Social Witness, and serves as a general editor of the Sources in Early Modern Ethics, Economics, and Law as well as the Opening the Scriptures series.

Stephen J. Grabill is a research scholar in theology at The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the inaugural editor of the Journal of Markets and Morality. While this is his first book as a solo author, he was a contributing author for Beyond Self-Interest: A Personalist Approach to Human Action, and Human Nature and the Discipline of Economics: Personalist Anthropology and Economic Methodology.