Could it be. . .

. . . that the interlocking rings symbolic of the Olympic Games are a good visual illustration of what Abraham Kuyper calls sphere sovereignty and his more recent heirs refer to as differentiated responsibility?



Rather than being hermetically sealed against each other, as one might find in certain libertarian models, the various societal spheres, including the multiplicity of communities in which we find ourselves embedded, overlap and are interrelated in many ways.

Here is the illustration I used in my book for sphere sovereignty:



Of course, all visual models have their limitations. The Olympic rings have the virtue of indicating the interrelatedness of the spheres. Mine does this less well perhaps, but it does, I believe, effectively show the direct relationship of each sphere to God himself, as well as indicating the nonhierarchical relationship amongst the spheres.