The Acton Institute in Grand Rapids has undertaken the Abraham Kuyper Common Grace Translation Project. From their press release:
In November, Christian’s Library Press is publishing Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art, a new and complete translation of two sections that were inadvertently omitted from the first edition of Kuyper’s larger three-volume work on common grace. These sections were first published separately and then added in later editions of the three volume set. Kuyper’s timeless work shows us that God is not absent from the non-church areas of our common life and bestows his gifts and favor to all people.
Popular in our time for his devotional material, Kuyper’s Wisdom & Wonder displays his talents as a public theologian, focusing on his comprehensive and Reformed vision of science and art.
As evangelicals face massive cultural shifts, the question hangs in the air: How will they respond? What evangelicals believe influences how they respond and this will have significant ramifications for the future of a free society and its business, economic, and public sectors.
Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary and author of Abraham Kuyper: A Short and Personal Introduction, says that the appearance of this treatise in English translation “is for me the beginning of a larger dream come true. Kuyper’s writings on common grace are much needed ‘for such a time as this’ andWisdom & Wonder is a marvelous foretaste of more that is to come!”
Sometimes the way forward is found by looking back. Wisdom & Wonder provides insight for the road ahead, appearing with a foreword by Gabe Lyons and Jon Tyson and an introduction by Vincent E. Bacote, associate professor of theology at Wheaton College and author of The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper. The volume is edited by Jordan J. Ballor and Stephen J. Grabill and translated by Nelson D. Kloosterman.
Paul spoke with Acton’s Jordan Ballor, co-editor of the first volume in the project, on Friday, October 7, 2011: