Revisiting Sphere Sovereignty to Interpret Restrictions on Religious Freedom

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 fo...

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主要作者: Petri, Dennis P. (Author)
其他作者: Visscher, Frans
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: 2015
In: Philosophia reformata
Year: 2015, 卷: 80, 發布: 1, Pages: 99-122
IxTheo Classification:BJ Islam
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
CH Christianity and Society
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDD Protestant Church
SA Church law; state-church law
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Religious Freedom religious persecution sphere sovereignty Islamic extremism secular intolerance
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總結: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. The first section will try to show that restrictions on religious expression in any sphere of society are restrictions on religious freedom. The second and third sections will provide examples of two global dynamics which in very distinct ways go against sphere sovereignty and specifically restrict religious expression in different spheres of society: “Islamic extremism” and “secular intolerance”. The article will conclude with a reflection about the virtues of sphere sovereignty as a guarantee against tyranny, and therefore also as a safeguard of religious freedom.
實物描述:Online-Ressource
ISSN:2352-8230
Contains:In: Philosophia reformata
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08001007