See It Clearly
July 9th, 2009, 9:54 am
Sphere Sovereignty...
Perhaps you have heard of the term, perhaps not. See if this makes sense to you and if it reflects a little of how you believe societel order and even this Nation was founded. I cannot delete the references to God as a Designer/Creator, but don't be offended, and don't turn this into a religious debate. Try to use your thinking caps and this will make sense to you.
Sphere sovereignty is the concept that each sphere (or sector) of life has its own distinct responsibilities and authority or competence, and stands equal to other spheres of life. Sphere sovereignty involves the idea of an all encompassing created order, designed and governed by God. This created order includes societal communities (such as those for purposes of education, worship, civil justice, agriculture, economy and labor, marriage and family, artistic expression, etc), their historical development, and their abiding norms. The principle of sphere sovereignty seeks to affirm and respect creational boundaries, and historical differentiation.
Sphere sovereignty implies that no one area of life or societal community is sovereign over another. Each sphere has its own created integrity. Sphere sovereignty holds that since everything is created “after its own kind,” diversity must be acknowledged and appreciated. For instance, the different God-given norms for family life and economic life should be recognized, such that a family does not properly function like a business. Similarly, neither faith-institutions (e.g. churches) nor an institution of civil justice (i.e. the state) should seek totalitarian control, or any regulation of human activity outside their limited competence, respectively.
In simple terms it is designed to work like this:
The five main societel spheres are
Church
Economy
Family
School
State
Each a distinct and seperate sphere, each with a distinct and seperate rule of order. No other sphere intrudes on or into any other. When the intrusion of one sphere into another occurs chaos soon follows and the intruded sphere loses it's sovereignty.
:think:
Perhaps you have heard of the term, perhaps not. See if this makes sense to you and if it reflects a little of how you believe societel order and even this Nation was founded. I cannot delete the references to God as a Designer/Creator, but don't be offended, and don't turn this into a religious debate. Try to use your thinking caps and this will make sense to you.
Sphere sovereignty is the concept that each sphere (or sector) of life has its own distinct responsibilities and authority or competence, and stands equal to other spheres of life. Sphere sovereignty involves the idea of an all encompassing created order, designed and governed by God. This created order includes societal communities (such as those for purposes of education, worship, civil justice, agriculture, economy and labor, marriage and family, artistic expression, etc), their historical development, and their abiding norms. The principle of sphere sovereignty seeks to affirm and respect creational boundaries, and historical differentiation.
Sphere sovereignty implies that no one area of life or societal community is sovereign over another. Each sphere has its own created integrity. Sphere sovereignty holds that since everything is created “after its own kind,” diversity must be acknowledged and appreciated. For instance, the different God-given norms for family life and economic life should be recognized, such that a family does not properly function like a business. Similarly, neither faith-institutions (e.g. churches) nor an institution of civil justice (i.e. the state) should seek totalitarian control, or any regulation of human activity outside their limited competence, respectively.
In simple terms it is designed to work like this:
The five main societel spheres are
Church
Economy
Family
School
State
Each a distinct and seperate sphere, each with a distinct and seperate rule of order. No other sphere intrudes on or into any other. When the intrusion of one sphere into another occurs chaos soon follows and the intruded sphere loses it's sovereignty.
:think: