Scott David Allen

I really wanted this book to deepen my understanding of Social Justice and Biblical Justice and how they are incompatible. I was underwhelmed and skimmed through it in an afternoon. The author's analysis of the current social justice movement and its ties to Marxism were interesting and helpful in setting context. So was his survey of Biblical justice and the call to focus on the gospel, rather than revolution.
What I didn't find was a compelling argument that a majority of compassionate Christians attempting to address social issues are getting it wrong. I felt like the narrative glossed over the complex interactions of the Biblical worldview with a pluralistic society. People are people and they are messy and emotional and complex and refuse to fit into buckets like right or left or liberal or conservative.
The book also appears to focus on the issue from a purely American perspective. As much as the author, and others, want the United States of America to be a Christian nation, it isn't. And never was. The best we can do as Christians is live in it and share the gospel and leave judgements to God. We also have to accept that we live in an increasingly global world filled with multiple cultures and religion. Forcing a distinctly American Christian worldview on everyone is impractical, among other things. Having cultural myopia is not acceptable or exusable.… (altro)