Is Social Justice Biblical?

It seems as if everyone is fighting for social justice today, Christians included. Ironically, you can often find people standing for justice while fighting for opposing causes. And you can see how easily this can happen. After all, no one would ever say that they’re against justice. The real question then isn’t whether you’re in favour of justice. The real question is whose justice do you favour?

In this episode, Scott and Shawn dive into the subject of social justice to help Christians find an answer. Beginning with a look at our culture’s prevailing ideas about justice, they turn to scripture to uncover what lies at the root of true justice as revealed by God’s Word.

What they discover might surprise you. But when you see what God says about true justice, you will come to realize that Christians, above all people, should be concerned with true biblical justice. There’s really no way of escaping it.

Sources

Thaddeus J. Williams, Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth, Zondervan Academic, December 22, 2020.

Interview: Michael Sandel on Justice, Prospect Magazine, January 21, 2011, [accessed online, November 10, 2022 at https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philosophy/intellectuals-and-ideas/54862/interview-michael-sandel-on-justice]

Joe Carter, The FAQs: What Christians Should Know About Social Justice, The Gospel Coalition, August 17, 2018, [accessed online, November 6, 2022 at https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/faqs-christians-know-social-justice/]

Timothy Keller, A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory, Special Edition: Gospel-Changed Minds, [accessed online, November 7, 2022 at https://quarterly.gospelinlife.com/a-biblical-critique-of-secular-justice-and-critical-theory/]