The Future of Creation Order by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319921471
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Creational Ordinances

Kuyper bequeathed to his followers a robustly normative vision and critique of the social order. By “robustly normative” I mean the following: how society is organized, and how this organization emerges and changes, are not merely matters to be described and explained. Rather, in addition to descriptions and explanations, and in the very process of describing and explaining, we need to evaluate a society’s organization and point out how it can be improved. For a society’s organization makes a real difference to the quality of human life and the well-being of other creatures.

Such a robustly normative project raises questions about the basis for evaluation and advocacy with respect to the social order. In response, Kuyper and his followers often appeal to the notion of creational ordinances, to the notion that the divine Creator has mandated from the very beginning—and continues to mandate—how society should be organized, and that these mandates are given in the very structure of creation. In Herman Dooyeweerd ’s social philosophy, for example, this notion underlies his emphasis on universal modal principles that humans must positivize as norms, his account of societal disclosure as a process of differentiation and integration, and his insistence that the major social institutions of modern society—such as the state , the family, and the organized religious community (“church”)—each needs to fulfill and uphold its own “structural principle.” The notion of divine creational ordinances also pervades Dooyeweerd’s account of the fundamental social conflict of his day as a directional “antithesis” between either serving God or serving an idol.

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