Dr. Robert Linthicum has just made available for downloading the complete three year cycle of his “The Gospel of Shalom: A Justice Reading of the Lectionary Scripture” This is based on his 48 years of study of how the Scripture deals with the issues of social justice. Reading along for the past year has changed my theology and given me a much better understanding of the problems in my community and the Church’s role in responding to those problem. Evangelicals please don’t be afraid this is a thoroughly solid evangelical work.That expresses both aspects of loving God and loving your neighbor.
The work is available in PDF downloads based on the lectionary year.
This summer he plans to release Truly Strategic Scriptures Avoided by the Lectionary, which I am looking forward to.
Anyone who wants a solid theology perspective on social justice issues should check out his website.
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Categories: Christianity, Community Organizing, Following Christ, Holistic Ministry, Must Reads, Poverty, Scripture, Social Justice, The common good, The whole Gospel, Theology of Social Justice, urban ministry
I have already said that every development program represents a convergence of stories: ours, the community’s, and God’s. God’s story is the only one that has the power to redirect and make sense out of all our stories. The best human future is one that moves toward the kingdom of God. Thus witnessing to God’s story is the beginning of hope and the promise of a new story
via Christians Supporting Community Organizing.
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Ouch! But sadly true.
If you want to start thinking about the implications of Christianity to macro discussions of culture you have to start with Catholic Social Thought. Evangelicals can’t think beyond the local church and don’t read maro level thinkers like Althusius or Kuyper. Evangelical discussions are woefully deficient because of an underdeveloped anthropology that does not treat being human as a particular vocation. Catholic Social Thought simply trumps evangelical thinking (if you can call it that) on several macro-level social issues. The result is that evangelicals are deficient in thinking socio-culturally about the implications of Christian anthropology to social, political, economic, and juridical frameworks–but they can tell you how to run a local church mercy ministry.
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via Caritas in veritate–very helpful – The Institute.
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