Monday, May 19, 2008

Jesus and Justice

Daniel M. Bell, whose writings are well worth reading, writes concerning the priority of confession or social action that:

“Jesus is the Justice of God.

This means there can be no division between confessing Jesus and doing justice. We cannot pick Jesus or justice; we cannot give priority to one over the other. This is the case because Jesus and justice finally are not two things, only one. Jesus is our Justice. Therefore, Christians can only do justice rightly by proclaiming Jesus and we can only
proclaim Jesus faithfully by doing justice. To proclaim the good news of Jesus is to do justice; to do justice is to proclaim Jesus. To do anything less is neither to confess Jesus nor do justice rightly.”
Absolutely brilliant!

The other Journal has the full transcript of his talk here.

1 comment:

Sivin Kit said...

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