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The Doctrine of Creation: A Constructive Kuyperian Approach is unavailable, but you can change that!

Apart from the doctrine of God, no doctrine is as comprehensive as that of creation. It is woven throughout the entire fabric of Christian theology. It goes to the deepest roots of reality and leaves no area of life untouched. Across the centuries, however, the doctrine of creation has often been eclipsed or threatened by various forms of gnosticism. Yet if Christians are to rise to current...

Calvin would certainly argue otherwise. He maintains that “there exists in the human minds and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity.”14 God has so endowed humans that all are aware that there is a God and that he is their maker. Calvin invokes the universality of religion in support of his view, and while he acknowledges that humans try to efface this knowledge, “all men of sound Judgment will therefore hold, that a sense of Deity is indelibly engraved on the human heart. And that this
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