EP. 63 - Social Justice, Selected Literary Essays, Hamartia

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Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson discuss the relationship of social justice to justification. Then he talks about C.S. Lewis’ Selected Literary Essays and finishes things off with a look at hamartia in John. Happy plodding! Show notes: Social Justice: The relationship of social justice to justification. Social Justice is the sharp end of the spear advancing the entire socialist, Marxist, and egalitarian agenda - very different from the Biblical view of justice. Every worldview has to have a justified class Justification is necessary and you can’t just tag it on the tail end of a secular worldview. Selected Literary Essays by C.S. Lewis The most accessible out of all of Lewis’ academic writings. A collection of literary essays from all over. You can cut it up separately! Great essays on many different topics by Lewis! Go! Read! Do it! Harmartia: Looking at hamartia in John John 1:7, 1:8, 1:9, 2:2, 2:12, 3:4, 3:5, 3:8, 3:9, 4:10, 5:16, 5:17

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0:00.0	Yes, God, God. God don't never change. So welcome to
0:18.7	podcast episode 63. This is a good time.
0:23.0	Thanks for joining us in it.
0:25.0	So I want to talk a little bit today about social justice and the relationship of social justice to justification and the relationship of that to what might be called a world view narrative.
0:42.0	So a lot of Christians know that they don't like, you know, they react away or they recoil from someone describing themselves as a social justice warrior.
0:55.0	When they think of social justice, they think of campus activists being snowflakes and so on.
1:00.0	But if someone stopped and said, what them and said but what problem do you have with I mean
1:09.7	justice is good right you're you're for justice. So what could be wrong with social justice?
1:17.2	Well, obviously you could define social justice in a careful enough way that nothing was wrong with it.
1:27.0	You could say justice is that which God describes as just in the Bible and if it's a corporate sense of justice applied to a whole society,
1:40.0	well then that would be social justice.
1:43.7	But unfortunately we have to take terms the way they are used in common
1:49.9	parlance and it's right that we react away
1:53.2	to react away from the phrase social justice.
1:55.9	We should react to it the same way we would react to a phrase
1:59.7	like bone cancer.
2:01.6	Social justice is simply the sharp end of the spear advancing the entire
2:07.6	socialist, Marxist, egalitarian agenda.
2:15.0	Social justice is not, social justice is very different from biblical justice.
2:25.8	And here's why.
2:28.0	In order to have, it's not possible
2:31.4	to have a definition of justice unless this is a fallen world, right?
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