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Political Theology, Christian Nationalism?, and Dooyeweerd with Jonathan Chaplin

Grace in Common

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Constitutional Democracy Is a Political System in Which the People Have a Powerful and Decisive Voice in Shaping the Policies of the State

The religiously impartial state is one manifestation of a larger concept to introduce which I simply called constitutional democracy. It's a political system in which the people through their elected representatives in parliament or other bodies have a powerful sometimes decisive voice in shaping the policies of the state. To a considerable extent the aspirations I set out in Christian democratic pluralism are already partially realized in any liberal democratic state, he says.

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