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The subject of God's General Revelation has in our day aroused agitated and even violent discussions, and the time when Reformed theology could take the distinction between general and special revelation for granted appears to be gone forever, says Professor Berkouwer. Does the distinction between general and special revelation, he asks, do justice to the unique and “once-for-all” character of...

not simply revealed in nature and history, and they appeal to those words in Scripture which speak of Christ who has revealed God. This reaction makes it doubly necessary to give careful consideration to the conflict concerning general revelation. Against this background of modern theological thought and its general, universal revelation, everyone who believes in general revelation must prove that he does absolutely no injustice to the revelation in Christ. There may be no competition between God’s
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