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The Sovereignty of Grace: An Appraisal of G. C. Berkouwer’s View of Dordt is unavailable, but you can change that!

Including his analysis of the principles discussed in the Council of Dordt, Van Til addresses the Reformed theology of grace as it was impacted by the discourse of the Roman Catholic church. Reviewing the works of Berkouwer and Barth, Van Til addresses the importance of the Council of Dordt to the development of the theology of grace, as well as analyzing the impact the aforementioned theologians...

Chapter 1: The Meaning of Dordt The synod of Dordt was concerned to defend the doctrine of the sovereign grace of God against the encroachment upon it by the doctrine of the free will of man. By the free will of man we mean the would-be-autonomy of fallen man. The apostle Paul tells us that there are two and only two kinds of people in this world. There are those who, because of their fall in Adam, serve and worship the creature rather than the Creator, and there are those who, because of their redemption
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