Whatever else we might say about the contemporary church, we must say this: We are well resourced. When a new challenge presents itself, when a new teaching arises, when a new heresy appears, it does not take long before we have access to books that address, confront, and correct it. One of the recent challenges to the church is the challenge of social justice—a term that is particularly tricky since it has both negative and positive connotations, both acceptable and troubling definitions. Thaddeus William’s Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice is an attempt to understand and explain justice from a biblical perspective and to show where society’s vision for justice falls short. It is an attempt that succeeds well.
“I wrote this book because I care about God,” he says. “I care about his church. I care about the gospel, and I care about true justice (though I am zero for four in caring as much as I should). Not all, but much of what is branded ‘social justice’ these days is a threat to all four of those things I hold dear.” His purpose, of course, is not to
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