Comments on: A Conservative Liberal? http://deregnochristi.org/2007/06/07/a-conservative-liberal/ The Reign of Christ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:15:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: W.H. Chellis http://deregnochristi.org/2007/06/07/a-conservative-liberal/#comment-1030 W.H. Chellis Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:48:00 +0000 http://deregnochristi.org/2007/06/07/a-conservative-liberal/#comment-1030 Well, we do have Johanus Athusius who I greatly admire. He was a 16th Century Reformed Political scientist and of great value. Taking him along with Rutherford a couple things are noted in our political theory. One is solidarity which I have already written about. The other is subsidiarity which I have also written about. A third is the divisability of sovereignty. That said, I will take Filmer to Locke any day. Hooker was Reformed and orthodox, no? Burke stands in Hooker's shadow. O.K. maybe anglicans are not considered orthodox in the Reformed camp... but R.L. Dabney and here we find the fruit of the Hooker, Burke, tradition in Presbyterian soil. Also, I think, Abraham Kuyper might be read profitably as a Reformed Burkean. He was, after all, a part of the Anti-Revolution party and his thought does show a number of points of contact with Burke. I would rather read Kuyper as a Burkean than in the light of those neo-calvinists who came after him. Well, we do have Johanus Athusius who I greatly admire. He was a 16th Century Reformed Political scientist and of great value.

Taking him along with Rutherford a couple things are noted in our political theory. One is solidarity which I have already written about. The other is subsidiarity which I have also written about. A third is the divisability of sovereignty.

That said, I will take Filmer to Locke any day. Hooker was Reformed and orthodox, no? Burke stands in Hooker’s shadow. O.K. maybe anglicans are not considered orthodox in the Reformed camp… but R.L. Dabney and here we find the fruit of the Hooker, Burke, tradition in Presbyterian soil.

Also, I think, Abraham Kuyper might be read profitably as a Reformed Burkean. He was, after all, a part of the Anti-Revolution party and his thought does show a number of points of contact with Burke. I would rather read Kuyper as a Burkean than in the light of those neo-calvinists who came after him.

]]> By: D Hart http://deregnochristi.org/2007/06/07/a-conservative-liberal/#comment-1027 D Hart Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:36:21 +0000 http://deregnochristi.org/2007/06/07/a-conservative-liberal/#comment-1027 Bill, you don't mean to say our entire intellectual heritage, do you? What about Paul, Calvin and Locke? Oh, Locke is too liberal, you might say. But are Burke and Randolph obviously more compatible with Paul and Calvin than Locke? In other words, isn't any political theoretical tradition going to be an odd fit with Reformed orthodoxy? Bill, you don’t mean to say our entire intellectual heritage, do you? What about Paul, Calvin and Locke? Oh, Locke is too liberal, you might say. But are Burke and Randolph obviously more compatible with Paul and Calvin than Locke?

In other words, isn’t any political theoretical tradition going to be an odd fit with Reformed orthodoxy?

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