Al Core claim of Hamish Faser: The writer argues that liberal democracy functions as a means by which modern man is enabled, even incited, to undo the work of redemption.Theological diagnosis: It repudiates the social kingship of the new Adam and proclaims the disobedience of our first parents — framing the Core claim: The speaker argues that liberal democracy functions as a means by which modern man is enabled, even incited, to undo the work of redemption.Theological diagnosis: It repudiates the social kingship of the new Adam and proclaims the disobedience of our first parents — framing the right to sin as the cornerstone of human rights.Societal consequence: This logic produces what the speaker calls a true post-Christian society, where rights are redefined apart from Christian redemption and holiness.Pastoral response (implied): Affirm Christ's social kingship, resist equating rights with a license to sin, and witness to redemptive truth in personal life and public engagement....
Liberal democracy is simply— Original Sin, plural. For it is a means whereby modern man is enabled, even incited, to undo the work of redemption by repudiating the social kingsship of the new Adam and by proclaiming the ungenerated disobedience of our first parents, i.e., the right to sin, as the cornerstone inspiration of all human rights properly understood, i.e.,of all such rights as are deemed to be acceptable for a true post-Christian society.
Liberal democracy is simply— Original Sin, plural. For it is a means whereby modern man is enabled, even incited, to undo the work of redemption by repudiating the social Kingship of the New Adam and by proclaiming the unregenerate disobedience of our First Parents, i.e., the right to sin, as the cornerstone inspiration of all human rights properly understood, i.e.,of all such rights as are deemed to be acceptable for a true post-Christian society. - Hamish Fraser