...never think that you are kneeling or standing alone, rather think that the whole of Christendom all devout Christians, are standing there besides you and you are standing among them in a common, united petition which God cannot disclaim. — Martin Luther.
Everyone thinks their own bias is objectivity. The first step to real objectivity is acknowledging one's own bias.- John Edward Philips
Thomas Aquinas prince of Roman Catholic scholasticism, made natural reason independent of the revelation of God in Christ Jesus. Learning, morality, political life and natural theology were then as autonomous areas of natural reason, practised in a pagan Aristotelian manner. - The christian idea of the state, Herman Dooyeweerd, p7
But neither marriage, nor family, nor blood relations, nor the free types of social existence, whether they are organised or not, can be considered as part of an all embracing state. Every societal relationship has received from God its own structure and law life, sovereign in its own sphere. The Christian world and life view, illumined by the revealed word of God, that posits sphere sovereignty of the temporal life spheres over against the pagan totality idea. - The christian idea of the state, Herman Dooyeweerd, p11
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