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Oi, achei teu blog pelo google tá bem interessante gostei desse post. Quando der dá uma passada pelo meu blog, é sobre camisetas personalizadas, mostra passo a passo como criar uma camiseta personalizada bem maneira. Até mais.
Audio of Mouw's lecture and of the Kuyper Consultation available HERE.
Mouw, very problematically, suggests that we should (after all) inhibit the proper functioning of the various spheres when it appears that there is a break-down in say, family life. In such a case, he says, the church can act as a family. He leads into this by a positive (re)assessment of Constaninianism ala Newbigin.
What you see here, I think, is a deceptive (or naive) excuse for Statism. His proposal allows for wouldbe Kuyperians to justify the State stepping in to "help" society. He just can't resist the old temptation for an antinormative power-grab under the guise of good intentions.
My preliminary critique against Mouw's "neo-constantinian" pseudo-Kuyperian proposal would be that the church cannot actually serve as a foster family. If the family structure (or particular families) in say, China, has broken down, it's not as though elders can actually parent church members as children. Only adoptive parents can parent adopted children, and elders can only act as elders. The elders can ensure that church members have adoptive families, but the church can hardly BE an actual functioning family without overstepping its own sovereignty! Mouw should know better.
The neocalvinist community needs to stick to its guns (ie, Kuyperian and Dooyeweerdian principles of sphere sovereignty), and repudiate Mouw's neoconstantinianism.
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