Justice

A Vestige of Holiness: Why I Am an Evangelical

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Evangelicalism is a renewal movement within Protestant Christianity which arose from the eighteenth-century revival movements of John Wesley and George Whitefield. Committed to historic Christian orthodoxy, evangelicalism has four main characteristics: biblicism (affirming the supreme Authority of Scripture), conversionism (affirming the need for personal conversion to following Jesus in order to be saved), activism (affirming … Read more

Christian Ethics and Economic Justice

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In recent years, increasing numbers of Christians have stressed the idea of the liberation of the poor and the marginalized as central to the Christian faith.  They have rejected an old, otherworldly theology that focused only on “saving souls” rather than on doing anything to improve this world in the here and now.  Instead, they … Read more

The World’s Justice and Christian Justice

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This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series The Seven Virtues

What is Justice? Human beings are by nature social animals.  Every individual human being is only alive because of a relationship between their parents, and because other human beings (usually their parents) took the time and energy to provide for and nurture them through their infancy and childhood years.  Human beings have a natural instinct … Read more