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(Extract from Herman Dooyeweerd’s essay ‘The Structure of Jural Principles and the Method of the Science of Law in Light of the Cosmonomic Idea’, translated by Daniël Strauss)
“No principle is supra-temporal, but only the eternal, religious meaning of law. [“Religious” = “the innate impulse of the human selfhood to direct itself toward the true or toward a pretended absolute Origin of all temporal diversity of meaning” (Dooyeweerd, A New Critique]. And all normative principles, also those of a logical, historical, social, lingual, aesthetic, economic, moral and pistical [certitudinal] nature are temporal refractions of the eternal meaning of the law, as has been revealed to us by Christ. Sin in its supra-temporal religious sense is not the violation of a functional norm, but touches the heart, the root of the human race: it signifies a rejection of the eternal meaning of the law, the service of God. But sin manifests itself within time in an attitude of revolt against the functional ordinances as they were set by God the Lord for every law-sphere. Sin also affects the natural functions. In humankind nature too fell, because it does not have existence in itself. Nature as such, however, is not subject to norms.”
(Time, Law, and History, Selected Essays by Herman Dooyeweerd, Paideia Press, Grand Rapids, 2017, pp 128, 129)
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