Parity, not privilege. Hardly a barnstorming election campaign slogan, but, in a nutshell, the strategic goal of Abraham Kuyper’s vision of “pluralism.” Christians should not seek a position of political or legal privilege in the public squares of their religiously and culturally diverse nations, but one of parity. The aim is to enjoy equal rights alongside other “confessional communities” within a constitutional democracy marked by wide freedom of expression, fair representation, and a diversity of voices. Thus, at the height of the Dutch nineteenth-century struggle for equal treatment for Christian schools, Kuyper asserted that “our unremitting goal should be to demand justice for all, justice for every life-expression.”
"The Full Weight of Our Convictions": The point of Kuyperian Pluralism by Jonathan Chaplin
An interview with the author (James Bratt) of the book mentioned in this review is now free to listen to at Mars Hill Audio.