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Revisiting Sphere Sovereignty to Interpret Restrictions on Religious Freedom

Philosophia Reformata, 2015
In this article, the Kuyperian concept of sphere sovereignty will be revisited in order to describe the multidimensionality of religious freedom. This article will show that true religious freedom requires not only a sovereign church sphere – the respect of church autonomy –, but also the freedom for religious expression in all other spheres of society.
Dennis P. Petri, Frans Visscher
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Subsidiarity and Sphere-Sovereignty: A Match Made in …?

Theological Studies, 2008
The principle of subsidiarity has a parallel in the Dutch Calvinist tradition of Abraham Kuyper. Seeking to create space for intermediate entities between the state and the individual, Kuyper developed the idea of “sphere-sovereignty” to express this.
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Kuyper and Dooyeweerd: Sphere Sovereignty and Modal Aspects

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, 2016
The article is an outline of some of the key thoughts of two Dutch Calvinist philosophers who have had a major impact on sections of modern evangelicalism. These key thoughts are sphere sovereignty, closely associated with Kuyper but adopted enthusiastically by Dooyeweerd as well, and modal aspects, which is particularly associated with Dooyeweerd ...
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The Relationship Between Sphere Sovereignty and Subsidiarity

2014
Sphere sovereignty is a social theory based on theological principles. Its starting point is the absolute sovereignty of God. From this principle, sphere sovereignty denies that any single human institution can claim absolute sovereignty. As a result, sphere sovereignty principles support an institutionally pluralistic society, where all kinds of power
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The Development of the Principle of Distributed Authority, or Sphere Sovereignty

Philosophia Reformata, 2017
The article traces the articulation of the principle of distributed authority, or sphere sovereignty, and its background in politics and theology. It considers the two Dutch national leaders who used and developed it most as well as noting some of its earlier sources.
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New Research on Groen van Prinsterer and the Idea of Sphere Sovereignty

Philosophia Reformata, 2019
Historians of Reformational philosophy often claim that Abraham Kuyper obtained the idea of sovereignty in its own sphere from Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer. But very little historical research has been done on Groen’s sources for and development of this idea.
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Sphere Sovereignty, Civil Society and the Pursuit of Holistic Transformation in Asia

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, 2015
This article examines the relative efficacy of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Dooyeweerd’s sphere sovereignty for holistic transformation in Asia. It examines interest in China and Malaysia in Neo-Calvinism, Civil Society, and sphere sovereignty and its social, cultural, and political implications.
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Ensuring the Sovereignty of the Russian Federation in the Information Sphere

State power and local self-government
Sovereignty is the main feature of the state, which determines the right of the bearer of supreme state power to independently, independently form, and also to exercise his will, including in the information sphere. We can notice that such concepts as technological sovereignty and digital sovereignty are used in regulatory legal acts. In this case, the
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The Uses of Vastey: Reading Black Sovereignty in the Atlantic Public Sphere

2017
By looking at largely contemporaneous nineteenth-century writing about Vastey from England, the United States, and France, this chapter examines how Baron de Vastey’s writings became the signs and symbols of the promises of black sovereignty in the Atlantic World.
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Poverty and Aid to the Poor: Scripture, Kuyper's Sphere Sovereignty and Entitlement Spending

Journal of Biblical Integration in Business, 1969
Two difficult issues that the Christian community deals with are the existence of poverty in our communities and the appropriate balance of private and government solutions to the problem. These two issues often conflict with one another in the economic and political spheres in the form of government policies like entitlement programs.
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