thought. Given the present state of cultural confusion, this change may itself provide sufficient motivation for a re-examination of common grace theology. Professor Foppe Ten Hoor, a theologian and elder statesman in the Christian Reformed Church during the common grace controversy of the 1920s, was never one to avoid a good theological debate, but he was reluctant to join the fray on common grace. According to one account, Professor Ten Hoor publicly stated “that he had studied