As C.S. Lewis points out, there are two ways to be supportive of democracy. One is because you have faith in Mankind, and you think that everybody’s opinion is so valuable that you don’t want to take any course of action without consulting everybody first. That is the humanist approach. The Christian approach argues that man is so far corrupted that we cannot entrust too much power to any human entity or person, which means that we have to spread the political power as thinly as possible. That is the Christian view, and it rests on our doctrine of sin. The other is the Pelagian view, whether it is the
Limited Government, by Doug Wilson
Limited Government, by Doug Wilson
Limited Government, by Doug Wilson
As C.S. Lewis points out, there are two ways to be supportive of democracy. One is because you have faith in Mankind, and you think that everybody’s opinion is so valuable that you don’t want to take any course of action without consulting everybody first. That is the humanist approach. The Christian approach argues that man is so far corrupted that we cannot entrust too much power to any human entity or person, which means that we have to spread the political power as thinly as possible. That is the Christian view, and it rests on our doctrine of sin. The other is the Pelagian view, whether it is the