http://deregnochristi.org/2007/03/16/community-and-subsidiarity/ The Reign of Christ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:25:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://deregnochristi.org/2007/03/16/community-and-subsidiarity/#comment-437 Politeuma · Community and Subsidiarity Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:52:21 +0000 http://deregnochristi.org/2007/03/16/community-and-subsidiarity/#comment-437 [...] Saturday, March 24th, 2007 Sadly, a broad based sense of alienation and loneliness testifies to the break down of community as a meaningful aspect of American life.  For nearly two centuries, modernist liberalism has waged an unrelenting war against all forms of mediating structures standing between the sovereign state and the individual. Family, church, village, and fraternal organization are damned as authoritarian imposition restricting the individual right to sovereign self-expression. Thus emancipated from the ancients bonds of community, man is free to live a life of anonymous individuality suffering no authority save the absolute power of the state. This is a danger to be corrected by biblical wisdom. ~ W.H. Chellis [...] [...] Saturday, March 24th, 2007 Sadly, a broad based sense of alienation and loneliness testifies to the break down of community as a meaningful aspect of American life.  For nearly two centuries, modernist liberalism has waged an unrelenting war against all forms of mediating structures standing between the sovereign state and the individual. Family, church, village, and fraternal organization are damned as authoritarian imposition restricting the individual right to sovereign self-expression. Thus emancipated from the ancients bonds of community, man is free to live a life of anonymous individuality suffering no authority save the absolute power of the state. This is a danger to be corrected by biblical wisdom. ~ W.H. Chellis [...]

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