p 25- streams of humanistic natural law
Summary
There are two streams in humanistic natural law: State-absolutism and antistate-absolutism.
The old-liberal theory of Rechtsstaadt comes from the antistate-absolutism, as does the laissez faire program.
A comparison of Calvinism and humanistic natural law:
Kuyper’s break with the nature/ grace dualism opened the way for a Christian view of society.
To gain insight into the structural principles it is necessary to understand the rich diversity of modal aspects. Reality functions in all these aspects and cannot be reduced to any of them.
Each modal aspect has its own law sphere.
The deeper unity can’t be found in any one of these aspects. This is found in Jesus Christ.
There is no area of life that exists outside of Christ: he is lord of all. No area exists independently of him.
Questions
1. How does a denial of sphere sovereignty affect the view of the State?
