Abraham Kuyper, Part II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I would call Kuyper a Christian Democrat rather than a Calvinist (though he was one), due to the use of the term by others who have more in common with social Darwinism than Darwin himself (how ironic is that?) Still, there was something rotten in the workplace and Kuyper was as attuned to it as the Internationale and the Georgists. His participation in and incorporation of an anti-revolutionary party is interesting. The way revolution was really held at bay was mass consumerism. Time and again, if you throw higher wages at workers they de-radicalize. My bet was that this was not the intent of the ARP, but it was the result.
Sphere Sovereignty is what Kuyper is known for. If only some of the fundamentalists would honor it. Or the USCCB. Of course, each might say that to the Supreme Court. As good as Sphere Sovereignty sounds, all things really are connected – if only because they all affect the people. I am a person always, whether a person shopping, working, praying or studying. Everything affects everything and one day it will all be rationalized into a whole, hopefully a whole that is democratic. Sphere Sovereignty is only necessary when you don’t trust the common people and they must have elites appointed over them, in which case spheres make sense, especially when you source sin as the font of human suffering, rather than simply relating sin to a punishing God Ogre – would that this concept had died in that era!
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