Bibliography on Common Grace
2025
Keathley, Ben. “But What Does It Look Like? Common Grace and Special Revelation in Counseling Practice.” Southeastern Theological Review 16, no. 2 (Fall 2025): 47–64. https://www.sebts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/4-But-What-Does-It-Look-Like-Keathley.pdf.
Brooks, Nate. “‘I Never Reconcile Friends’: The Complementarity of Scripture and Common Grace for Counseling.” Southeastern Theological Review 16, no. 2 (Fall 2025): 35–45. https://www.sebts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/3-I-Never-Reconcile-Friends-Brooks.pdf.
McNeely, Travis. "Elements of Truth or Eclecticism: Understanding Common Grace within the Biblical Counseling Framework." Gloria Deo Journal of Theology 4 (2025): 23–51. https://g3min.org/journal_article/elements-of-truth-or-eclecticism-understanding-common-grace-within-the-biblical-counseling-framework.
Bob Kellemen. “God’s Sovereign, Christ-Glorifying Common Grace: Over Every Square Inch!” RPM Ministries, September 2025. https://rpmministries.org/2025/09/sovereign-christ-glorifying-common-grace/.
Evans, Keith. “The Use of Extra-Biblical Methods in Counseling.” Truth in Love, episode 527. Biblical Counseling Coalition, July 28, 2025. https://biblicalcounseling.com/resource-library/podcast-episodes/extra-biblical-methods-in-counseling/.
Adkins, Marshall. “Implications of Common Grace.” Truth in Love, episode 508. Biblical Counseling Coalition, March 17, 2025. https://biblicalcounseling.com/resource-library/podcast-episodes/implications-of-common-grace/.
Kellemen, Bob. “A Trilogy on Common Grace, the Sufficiency of Scripture, and Biblical Counseling: Clarity and Charity Leading to Unity.” RPM Ministries, February 2025. https://rpmministries.org/2025/02/trilogy-cg-bc/.
Welch, Edward T. “A Response to Francine Tan’s JBSC Article.” Journal of Biblical Soul Care 9, no. 1 (Spring 2025): 98–105. https://acbcdigitalresources.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/resources/JBSC/Spring+2025/JBSC+Spring+2025+Updated.pdf.
2024
Brooks, Nate, Tate Cockrell, Brad Hambrick, Kristin Kellen, and Sam Williams. “What Is Redemptive Counseling / Clinically Informed Biblical Counseling?” Paper presented by faculty of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2024. https://www.sebts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/What-is-RCCIBC.pdf.
Gifford, Greg. "What Can the Natural Person Know? 1 Corinthians 2’s Use of Spiritual versus Natural Knowledge." Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, San Diego, CA, November 19–21, 2024.
Gifford, Greg. “What Can an Unbeliever Know?” Truth in Love, episode 481. Biblical Counseling Coalition. September 2, 2024. https://biblicalcounseling.com/resource-library/podcast-episodes/what-can-an-unbeliever-know/.
Gifford, Greg E., Heath Lambert, and Dale Johnson. A Call for Clarity: A Critical Examination of Contemporary Counseling Controversies. Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, 2024.
Tan, Francine. “Common Grace in Debate: A Response to Edward T. Welch’s ‘Common Grace, Knowing People, and the Biblical Counselor.’” Journal of Biblical Soul Care 8, no. 2 (Fall 2024): 71–105. https://acbcdigitalresources.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/resources/JBSC/FALL2024/JBSC+FALL+2024.pdf.
Kellemen, Bob. “A Word from Bob: Common Grace and Biblical Counseling: Wisdom from Reformed Theologians.” RPM Ministries, July 2024. https://rpmministries.org/2024/07/cg-bc-10-rt/.
Lambert, Heath. “Six Crucial Confusions of the New Integrationists.” First Thoughts (First Baptist Church Jacksonville), May 28, 2024. https://fbcjax.com/first-thoughts/six-crucial-confusions-of-the-new-integrationists/. Video, 0:42:47.
Lambert, Heath. “A Commentary on Priests, Zombies, and Prophets.” First Thoughts (First Baptist Church Jacksonville), May 17, 2024. https://fbcjax.com/first-thoughts/a-commentary-on-priests-zombies-and-prophets/. Video, 0:20:12.
Lambert, Heath. “Priests in the Garden, Zombies in the Wilderness, and Prophets on the Wall: The Current State of the Contemporary Biblical Counseling Movement.” First Thoughts (First Baptist Church Jacksonville), May 13, 2024. https://fbcjax.com/first-thoughts/priests-in-the-garden-zombies-in-the-wilderness-and-prophets-on-the-wall-the-current-state-of-the-contemporary-biblical-counseling-movement/. Video, 0:44:54.
Baker, Ernie. “Presuppositionalism, Common Grace, and Trauma Theory.” Journal of Biblical Soul Care 8, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 64–87. https://acbcdigitalresources.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/resources/JBSC/Spring2024/JBSC+Spring+2024+Final.pdf
Chou, Abner. “Common Grace and the Sufficiency of Scripture.” Journal of Biblical Soul Care 8, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 7–23. https://acbcdigitalresources.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/resources/JBSC/Spring2024/JBSC+Spring+2024+Final.pdf
Gifford, Greg E. “Editorial: The Battle for Biblical Counseling.” Journal of Biblical Soul Care 8, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 4–6. https://acbcdigitalresources.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/resources/JBSC/Spring2024/JBSC+Spring+2024+Final.pdf
Welch, Edward T. “Common Grace, Knowing People, and the Biblical Counselor.” Journal of Biblical Soul Care 8, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 24–40. https://acbcdigitalresources.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/resources/JBSC/Spring2024/JBSC+Spring+2024+Final.pdf
Poulton, Jared. “Clarifying Common Grace for Counselors: Part Two.” Biblical Counseling Coalition, January 26, 2024. https://www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/2024/01/26/clarifying-common-grace-for-counselors-part-two/.
Poulton, Jared. “Clarifying Common Grace for Counselors: Part One.” Biblical Counseling Coalition, January 24, 2024. https://www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/2024/01/24/clarifying-common-grace-for-counselors-part-one/.
Brooks, Nate. "Book Review: Biblical Counseling and Common Grace." The London Lyceum, January 22, 2024. https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-biblical-counseling-and-common-grace/.
Jared S. Poulton, “Reforming Counseling: The Adaptation of Van Tilian Concepts by Jay Adams,” PhD diss., (The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2024), 3.
Brooks, Nate, Brad Hambrick, and Kristin Kellen. “SEBTS Counseling Professors Roundtable: As It Is and As It Could Be.” Southeastern Theological Review 15, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 73–86. https://www.sebts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Updated-15.1.pdf.
Brooks, Nate. “Everybody Integrates: Biblical Counseling and the Use of Extrabiblical Material.” Southeastern Theological Review 15, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 7–19. https://www.sebts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Updated-15.1.pdf.
2023
Brooks, Nate. “What Did David Powlison Teach about Scripture and Psychology?” Biblical Counseling Coalition, October 20, 2023. https://www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/2023/10/20/what-did-david-powlison-teach-about-scripture-and-psychology/.
Lambert, Heath. 2023. Biblical Counseling and Common Grace. Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherd Press. (explores common grace's limits in soul care, emphasizing Scripture's sufficiency over integrationist uses.)
Bolt, J. (2023). The Christian Reformed Synod of 1924: Unfinished Business on Common Grace Part 2. Calvin Theological Journal, 58(2), 265–304.
2022
Bolt, J. (2022). The Christian Reformed Synod of 1924: Unfinished Business on Common Grace Part 1. Calvin Theological Journal, 57(2), 271–312.
Wilde, Ed. “A Theological Critique of Empiricism.” Journal of Biblical Soul Care 6, no. 1 (Fall 2022): 49–99. https://acbcdigitalresources.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/resources/JBSC/Fall+2023+JBSC_Dec+27.pdf.
2021
Wilde, Ed. "The Manner in Which a Biblical Counselor Should Interact with Secular Psychology." Journal of Biblical Soul Care 5, no. 1 (Fall 2021): 27–63. https://www.masters.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/JBSC5.1-1.pdf.
2020
Mouw, Richard J. All That God Cares About: Common Grace and Divine Delight. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2020.
Barrett, Matthew. “Common Grace, Natural Revelation, and the Sensus Divinitatis.” Themelios 45, no. 3 (2020): 434–48.
2019
Newhesier, Jim. “Preaching, Counseling, and Common Grace Wisdom.” Biblical Counseling Coalition, March 1, 2019. https://www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/2019/03/01/preaching-counseling-and-common-grace-wisdom/.
2018
Wilde, Ed. "Why Common Grace Is Not Enough for Christians Who Counsel, Part 2." Journal of Biblical Soul Care 2, no. 1 (Fall 2018): 5–30. https://www.masters.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/JBSC2.1.pdf.
Stephens, Samuel. “The History of Christian Counseling and General Revelation: The Misuse of a Biblical Doctrine.” Biblical Counseling, February 23, 2018. https://biblicalcounseling.com/resource-library/essays/the-history-of-christian-counseling-and-general-revelation-the-misuse-of-a-biblical-doctrine/.
Wilde, Ed. "Why Common Grace Is Not Enough for Christians Who Counsel." Journal of Biblical Soul Care 1, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 58–72. https://www.masters.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/JBSC1.2_Final.pdf.
2017
Douma Jochem. 2017. Common Grace in Kuyper, Schilder, and Calvin: Exposition, Comparison, and Evaluation. Lucerna: Crts Publications: November 29, 2017.
Nathan D Shannon, “Christian Cultural Defeatism in the Arts: The Theology of a Common Grace Misstep,” Journal of Reformed Theology 11, 4 (2017): 402, https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01104011
2016
Hanko, Ronald. 2016. Christianizing the World: Reformed Calling or Ecclesiastical Suicide?. Jenison, MI: Reformed Free Publishing Association. (critiques common grace as unbiblical, linking it to postmillennial overreach.)
Kuyper, Abraham, Common Grace: God’s Gifts for a Fallen World. Edited by Jordan J Ballor, Stephen J Grabill, and J. Daryl Charles. Translated by Nelson D Kloosterman and Ed M Van der Maas. Collected Works in Public Theology. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016.
Charles R. Biggs, “Common Grace: John Calvin, Abraham Kuyper and Cornelius Van Til” (Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, 2016), https://ketoctin.org/wpcontent/uploads/2012/12/PRTS.2016.Soteriology.Common-Grace-and-theGospel.finaldraft.April_.2016-1.pdf
Lambert, Heath. “Biblical Counseling, the Sufficiency of Scripture, and the Use of Extra-Biblical Information..” Biblical Counseling, April 11, 2016. https://biblicalcounseling.com/resource-library/articles/biblical-counseling-the-sufficiency-of-scripture-and-the-use-of-extra-biblical-information-part-i/.
Heath Lambert, A Theology of Biblical Counseling: The Doctrinal Foundations of Counseling Ministry (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2016)
2015
Van Til, Cornelius. 2015. Common Grace and the Gospel. 2nd ed. Edited by K. Scott Oliphint. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing. Originally published 1972. (Presuppositional Reformed; examines common grace in apologetics and gospel offer, replying to critics like Hoeksema.)
Clark, R. Scott. “The Gospel Is Not Common.” Heidelblog, April 2015. https://heidelblog.net/2015/04/the-gospel-is-not-common/.
2014
Bolt, John. “Herman Hoeksema Was Right (On the Three Points That Really Matter).” In Biblical Interpretation and Doctrinal Formulation in the Reformed Tradition: Essays in Honor of James De Jong, edited by Arie C. Leder, 295–318. Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014.
Vidu, Adonis. “Common Grace and Particular Redemption: A Tension in Reformed Theology?” Themelios 39, no. 2 (2014): 229–42.
2012
Powlison, David. How Does Scripture Teach Us to Redeem Psychology? Journal of Biblical Counseling 26, no. 3 (2012): 18–27.
2011
Kuyper, Abraham, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art. Edited by Jordan J Ballor and Stephen J Grabill. Translated by Nelson D Kloosterman. Grand Rapids: Christian’s Library Press, 2011.
Beach, J. Mark. “Calvin’s Treatment of the Offer of the Gospel and Divine Grace.” Mid-America Journal of Theology 22 (2011): 55–76.
Dennison, William D. “Antithesis, Common Grace, and Plato’s View of the Soul.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54, no. 1 (2011): 109–31. https://etsjets.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/files_JETS-PDFs_54_54-1_JETS_54-1_109-131_Dennison.pdf.
2010
Powlison, David. The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context. Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2010.
Garcia, Mark A. “Uncommon Grace: The Reformed Doctrine of Common Grace and the Grace of Election.” Themelios 35, no. 1 (2010): 4–18.
Raabe, Paul A. “Common Grace and the Christian's Engagement with Culture: A Biblical and Theological Perspective.” Journal of Ministry Marketing & Management 10, no. 1 (2010): 1–15.
Johnson, Dennis E. “Common Grace and Theological Scholarship.” Westminster Seminary California, July 27, 2010. https://www.wscal.edu/resources/article/common-grace-and-theological-scholarship/.
2009
Hart, Darryl G. “Neutrality, Schnootrality.” Old Life Theological Society, August 2009. https://oldlife.org/2009/08/14/neutrality-schnootrality/.
2008
Bolt, John, editor’s introduction to “Common Grace.” In Essays on Religion, Science, and Society, by Herman Bavinck, translated by Harry Boonstra and Gerrit Sheeres, 31–64. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008. (Note: Bolt's introduction provides historical and theological context on common grace in Bavinck's thought.)
Bavinck, Herman. Reformed Dogmatics. 4 vols. Edited by John Bolt. Translated by John Vriend. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003–2008.
2007
Powlison, David. Cure of Souls (and the Modern Psychotherapies). Journal of Biblical Counseling 25, no. 2 (2007): 5-36.
Kloosterman, Nelson D. “Common Grace and Christian Social Ethics.” Mid-America Journal of Theology 18 (2007): 7–28.
2006
Willborn, C. N. “Common Grace: A Nineteenth-Century Contribution to the Current Debate.” The Confessional Presbyterian 2 (2006): 41–52.
2004
Jay E. Adams, Is All Truth God’s Truth? (Memphis, TN: Institute for Nouthetic Studies, 2004).
2003
Engelsma, David J. 2003. Common Grace Revisited: A Response to Richard J. Mouw’s He Shines in All That’s Fair. Grandville, MI: Reformed Free Publishing Association. (rejects common grace as diluting total depravity, arguing it conflates general providence with salvific favor.)
Mathes, Glenda. “3000 People Attend a Debate on Common Grace.” Banner of Truth, December 5, 2003. https://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2003/3000-people-attend-a-debate-oncommon-grace/.
2002
Mouw, Richard J. 2002. He Shines in All That's Fair: Culture and Common Grace. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. (Integrationist, Defends Kuyperian common grace for cultural engagement)
Dennis E. Johnson. “Spiritual Antithesis: Common Grace, and Practical Theology.” January 2, 2002. https://www.wscal.edu/resources/article/spiritual-antithesis-common-grace-and-practical-theology/.
Horton, Michael S. “Providence and Common Grace.” Modern Reformation 11, no. 5 (September/October 2002): 25–31. https://www.modernreformation.org/resources/articles/providence-and-common-grace.
2001
Mouw, Richard J. “Ways of Framing the Debate over Common Grace.” Calvin Theological Journal 36, no. 2 (November 2001): 336–43.
2000
Powlison, David. Affirmations & Denials: A Proposed Definition of Biblical Counseling. Journal of Biblical Counseling 19, no. 1 (2000): 18–25.
Gritters, Barry. “Grace Uncommon: A Protestant Reformed Look at the Doctrine of Common Grace.” Grandville, MI: Protestant Reformed Churches in America, 2000. https://www.prca.org/pamphlets/pamphlet_55.html.
Bolt, John. “Common Grace and the Christian Reformed Synod of Kalamazoo (1924): A Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Retrospective.” Calvin Theological Journal 35, no. 1 (April 2000): 7–35. https://www.prca.org/articles/ctj1.html.
Bolt, John. “Common Grace, Theonomy, and Civic Good: The Temptations of Calvinist Politics (Reflections on the Third Point of the CRC Kalamazoo Synod, 1924).” Calvin Theological Journal 35, no. 2 (November 2000): 216–31.
1999
Jan Van Vliet, “From Condition to State: Critical Reflections on Cornelius Van Til’s Doctrine of Common Grace,” The Westminster Theological Journal 61, 1 (1999): 73
1998
Greg L. Bahnsen, Van Til’s Apologetic: Readings and Analysis (Phillipsburg, N.J: P&R Publishing, 1998), 407.
1997
Powlison, David and Welch, Ed. 1997. Response to Hurley and Berry. Journal of Psychology and Christianity 16, no. 1 (1997): 303.
Powlison, David and Welch, Ed. 1997. “Every Common Bush Afire with God”: The Scripture’s Constitutive Role for Counseling. Journal of Psychology and Christianity 16, no. 4 (1997): 293–371.
1996
Powlison, David. Modern Therapies and the Church’s Faith. Journal of Biblical Counseling 15, no. 1 (1996): 32–41.
1995
John Frame, “Van Til on Antithesis,” Westminster Theological Journal 57 (1995): 88–89.
1994
Armstrong, Jonathan. “Common Grace: A Not So Common Matter.” Reformation & Revival 3, no. 1 (Winter 1994): 91–104.
1993
Powlison, David. Critiquing Modern Integrationists. Journal of Biblical Counseling 11, no. 3 (1993): 24-34.
Powlison, David. 25 Years of Biblical Counseling: An Interview with Jay Adams and John Bettler. Journal of Biblical Counseling 12, no. 1 (1993): 8–13.
William D. Dennison, “Van Til and Common Grace,” Mid-America Journal of Theology 9, 2 (1993): 225-247. https://www.midamerica.edu/uploads/files/pdf/journal/03journal92dennison.pdf
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1992
Walter Campbell-Jack, “Grace without Christ? The Doctrine of Common Grace in Dutch-American Neo-Calvinism” (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1992).
1991
Jacob Klapwijk, S. Griffioen, and G. Groenewoud, eds., “Antithesis and Common Grace,” in Bringing into Captivity Every Thought: Capita Selecta in the History of Christian Evaluations of NonChristian Philosophy (Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1991)
1989
Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, “Herman Bavinck’s ‘Common Grace,’” Calvin Theological Journal 24 (April 1989): 35–65
1988
Powlison, David. Crucial Issues in Contemporary Biblical Counseling. Journal of Biblical Counseling 9, no. 3 (1988): 53–78.
1986
Henry Vander Kam, “Some Comments on Kuyper and Common Grace,” Mid-America Journal of Theology 2, 1 (March 1986): 51-60.
1984
Which Presuppositions? Secular Psychology and the Categories of Biblical Thought. Journal of Psychology and Christianity 12, no. 4 (1984): 270–278.
Donald K/ McKim, Readings in Calvin’s Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1984)
1983
Frame, John M. 1983. The Doctrine of the Christian Life. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2008. (relates common grace to "civic righteousness" and societal well-being, with implications for Christian engagement with culture.)
1971
Sproul, R. C. 1971. "A Loving Provision." In Grace Unknown: The Heart of Reformed Theology, 165–174. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1997. (frames common grace as God's kindness to the unthankful, e.g., Luke 6:35, as a witness to all humanity.)
1969
Van Til, Cornelius. A Survey of Christian Epistemology. 2nd ed. In Defense of Biblical Christianity 2. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1969.
1959
Richard Arden Couch, “An Evaluation and Reformulation of the Doctrine of Common Grace in the Reformed Tradition” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1959)
1955
Murray, John. 1955. "Common Grace." In Collected Writings of John Murray, vol. 2, 93–119. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1977.
1954
Daane, James. A Theology of Grace: An Inquiry into and Evaluation of Dr. C. Van Til’s Doctrine of Common Grace. Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans Pub, 1954.
1953
Masselink, William. General Revelation and Common Grace : A Defense of the Historic Reformed Faith Over against the Theology and Philosophy of the So-Called “Reconstructionist” Movement. Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans Pub, 1953.
1952
Van Til, Cornelius. A Letter on Common Grace. Philipsburg, N.J.: Lewis Grotenhuis, 1952.
1951
Masselink, William. Common Grace and Christian Education: Or, a Calvinistic Philosophy of Science. Chicago, 1951.
1949
Bavinck, Herman. 1949. Reformed Dogmatics. Vol. 4. Translated by John Vriend. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008. (emphasizes unity of nature and grace.)
1947
Van Til, Cornelius. Common Grace. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub, 1947.
1946
Cornelius Van Til, "Common Grace - II," Westminster Theological Journal 8.2 (May 1946): 166-200.
1945
Cornelius Van Til, "Common Grace - I," Westminster Theological Journal 8.1 (Nov. 1945): 39-60.
1942
Hoeksema, Herman. “Herman Hoeksema’s Critique of Common Grace in Common Grace and the Gospel by Cornelius Van Til.” The Standard Bearer 18 (1942). https://www.cprf.co.uk/articles/hhvantilcritique.pdf.
John Murray, "Common Grace," Westminster Theological Journal 5.1 (1942): 1-28.
1941
Van Til, Cornelius. 1941. "Common Grace." Westminster Theological Journal 3 (2): 87–109. (argues common grace provides point of contact for apologetics without implying salvific favor.)
1938
Berkhof, Louis. 1938. Systematic Theology. 4th ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996. (Part 4, Section 3 details common grace as curbing sin, maintaining moral order, and distributing talents, distinguishing it from Arminian views.)
1923
Herman Bavinck, Foundations of Psychology (Beginselen der Psychologie), trans. Jack Vanden Born, Nelson D. Kloosterman, and John Bolt, 2nd ed. (Kampen: J. H. Kok, 1923), ii.
1928
Kuiper, Herman. 1928. Calvin on Common Grace. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. (Comprehensive compilation of 170+ pages of Calvin's quotes on common grace, emphasizing its role in restraining sin and enabling civic good.)
1925
Kuiper, Henry J. The Three Points of Common Grace. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1925.
1909
Bavinck, Herman. “Calvin & Common Grace.” The Princeton Theological Review, Vol. 7 No. 3, Translated by Geerhardus Vos (1909), 437-465. https://www.amazon.com/Calvin-Common-Grace-Herman-Bavinck-ebook/dp/B00DRLG2KG
1902-1904
Kuyper, Abraham. 1902–1904. Common Grace. 3 vols. Translated by Nelson D. Kloosterman and Ed M. van der Maas. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2016–2019. (Seminal Dutch Reformed work; defines common grace as God's restraint of sin and sustenance of creation, enabling cultural development; foundational for Neo-Calvinism.)
1559
Calvin, John. 1559. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Translated by Henry Beveridge. Grand Rapids: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2008. (Calvin discusses God's general providence and gifts to the unregenerate as precursors to common grace, e.g., Book 2, Ch. 2-3.)
Other
Clark, R. Scott. “Resources on the Nature/Grace and Sacred/Secular Distinctions.” Heidelblog, [n.d.]. https://heidelblog.net/nature-grace-sacred-secular/.