I am particularly happy that Professor Lee has undertaken this study in an age of confusion. Calvin, the well-balanced Christian philosopher and theologian, had a clear insight into the principles underlying the sciences. He was the first to formulate the doctrine of common grace and its bearing on science; but he also emphasized the significance of special grace and revelation for scientific investigation. I need only refer to Inst. I: VI: 1, where he compares Scripture to glasses, enabling man to read the book of depraved reality, that is, the object of the non-theological sciences, so as to advance a theocentric philosophy of life.
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