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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...

are said to be beyond the reach of natural reason, yet this knowledge of God through the natural light of reason is considered so important that Rome condemns anyone who denies that we can know the one, only, true God, our creator and Lord, from created reality by means of reason.8 That which the Vatican Council clearly defined had been generally held by Roman Catholic theologians for centuries. It seems, then, that there can hardly be any disagreement as to what Rome means by natural theology:
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