Resources on Counseling Methodology
Resources on Counseling Methodology
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Jay E. Adams, Is All Truth God’s Truth? (Memphis, TN: Institute for Nouthetic Studies, 2004).
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Current Debate History
Robert W. Kellemen, “7 Reformed Theologians on ‘Common Grace,’” RPM Ministries, August 9, 2022
Beth Broom,“Our Ministry Philosophy,” Christian Trauma Healing Network, accessed January 20, 2024,
Heath Lambert, Biblical Counseling and Common Grace (Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherds Press, 2023)
Heath Lambert, ed., A Call to Clarity: Critical Issues in Contemporary Biblical Counseling (Jacksonville, FL: First Baptist Church Jacksonville, 2024)
Ed Welch. Common Grace, Knowing People, and the Biblical Counselor. The Journal of Biblical Soul Care Spring 2024, Volume 8, Number 1.
Ernie Baker, “Presuppositionalism, Common Grace, and Trauma Theory,” Journal of Biblical Soul Care 8, 1 (Spring 2024)
Heath Lambert. Priests in the Garden, Zombies in the Wilderness, and Prophets on the Wall. FBC Jacksonville, May 13, 2024.
Heath Lambert. Six Crucial Confusions of The New Integrationists. FBC Jacksonville, May 28, 2024.
Brad Hambrick, “Southeastern Theological Review: SEBTS Counseling Professors Roundtable: As It Is and As It Could Be,” Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary15, 1 (Spring 2024)
Sean Perron. Mislabeling Counseling and the Great Commissio. FBC Jacksonville, June 5, 2024.
Nate Brooks et al., “What Is Redemptive Counseling / Clinically Informed Biblical Counseling?” (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, July 8, 2024.
Austin Collins. Psychological Charlatans and Common Grace. FBC Jacksonville, September 28, 2024.
Francine Tan. Common Grace in Debate: A Response to Edward T. Welch’s “Common Grace, Knowing People, and the Biblical Counselor." The Journal of biblical soul care Fall 2024, Volume 8, Number 2.
Stephen Ganschow & Brad Hambrick on Brad's book Angry with God. March 7, 2025
Scholarly Treatments of Common Grace
See William D. Dennison, “Van Til and Common Grace,” Mid-America Journal of Theology 9, 2 (1993): 226
David Engelsma, Common Grace Revisited: A Response to Richard J. Mouw’s He Shines in All That’s Fair, Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth (Grandville, MI: Reformed Free Pub. Association, 2003), 14
Cornelius Van Til, A Survey of Christian Epistemology, 2. ed, In Defense of Biblical Christianity 2 (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publ. Co, 1967).
Barry Gritters, “Grace Uncommon: A Protestant Reformed Look at the Doctrine of Common Grace,” 2000
Mathes Glenda, “3000 People Attend A Debate on Common Grace,” Banner of Truth, December 5, 2003,
David Engelsma, Common Grace Revisited: A Response to Richard J. Mouw’s He Shines in All That’s Fair, Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth (Grandville, MI: Reformed Free Pub. Association, 2003)
Herman Kuiper, Calvin on Common Grace (Grand Rapids, MI: Smither Book, 1928), 3
Herman Hoeksema, “Herman Hoeksema’s Critique of Cornelius Van Til’s Common Grace and the Gospel” (The Standard Bearer, 1942
John Bolt, “Common Grace and the Christian Reformed Synod of Kalamazoo (1924): A Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Retrospective,” Calvin Theological Journal Spring (2000)
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Cornelius Van Til and K. Scott Oliphint, Common Grace and the Gospel, Second Edition, including the complete text of the original, 1972 edition (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P&R Pub, 2015
Nathan D Shannon, “Christian Cultural Defeatism in the Arts: The Theology of a Common Grace Misstep,” Journal of Reformed Theology 11, 4 (2017): 402
Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, “Herman Bavinck’s ‘Common Grace,’” Calvin Theological Journal 24 (April 1989): 35–65
Henry Vander Kam, “Some Comments on Kuyper and Common Grace,” Mid-America Journal of Theology 2, 1 (March 1986): 51–60
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);
Charles R. Biggs, “Common Grace: John Calvin, Abraham Kuyper and Cornelius Van Til”
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.
work needs to be done to determine the scriptural, theological, and doctrinal parameters of the description and application of CG in the biblical counseling movement.