How The Gospel Coalition is Killing The Gospel With “Social Justice”

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How The Gospel Coalition is Killing The Gospel With “Social Justice”

Posted: 7/8/2017 1:25:22 PM EDT

What is charity? It is helping those in need. It’s giving to those who have not earned it. It’s a picture of the gospel. It’s grace in action, on a human level. It’s a wonderful thing. What is justice? It’s getting what one deserves. It’s balanced scales. An even transaction. Getting what one is due. So, economicjustice is meant to communicate getting what one deserves, economically. It means getting the money one is due. If charity is helping the poor, and if Mr. Forster refers to helping the poor as “economic justice,” then Mr. Forster is telling us that the poor deserve the monetary help?—?not as a gift, but as aright. If charity is justice, then the lack of charity is unjust. If money is owed to the poor because they need it, then need?—?instead of property rights?—?is the new standard of justice; and the extent to which you do not give to those in need, is the extent to which you are a criminal, guilty of an “economic injustice.” If it sounds Marxist, that’s because it is. And this article is just one of the latest Marx-inspired articles on “public justice,” “social justice,” and who knows what other perversions of the concept of justice TGC can have dreamed up.

https://medium.com/christian-intellectual/how-the-gospel-coalition-is-killing-the-gospel-with-social-justice-6c5bf49b395b

Posted: 7/8/2017 1:38:15 PM EDT

[#1]

Interesting article. It is about a year old now, but still interesting. Brunton's assertion that Forster is guilty of sloppy language is correct. It isn't clear from Forster's article whether he actually believes that giving to the poor is "justice" in the way Brunton (and normal people) define it. But, I agree that sloppy language often leads to sloppy beliefs.

Posted: 7/8/2017 2:04:05 PM EDT

[#2]

Liberalism is a mental disease.

Posted: 7/8/2017 2:07:58 PM EDT

[#3]

Yeah. While I don't always agree 100% with the positions of TGC, for the most part they seem like a sharp group of guys.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How The Gospel Coalition is Killing The Gospel With “Social Justice”

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