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The Case for Social Righteousness

By Cynthia Rigby   The following is an excerpt from the book by Cynthia Rigby, Promotion of Social Righteousness [Louisville: Witherspoon Press, 2010], 1-11, available from www.TheThoughtfulChristian.com. The article is republished here with permission from the author and Witherspoon Press.

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Justice at Union Theological Seminary (NYC)

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Legacy of Justice, Lens for Action As much as we may wish to believe that justice is a function of our institutions, justice always has a countercultural voice—an inherent tension with institutionalized power. By Thia Reggio   View and print as PDF.   Union Theological Seminary in the City of

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The Case for Social Righteousness

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By Cynthia Rigby   The following is an excerpt from the book by Cynthia Rigby, Promotion of Social Righteousness [Louisville: Witherspoon Press, 2010], 1-11, available from www.TheThoughtfulChristian.com. The article is republished here with permission from the author and Witherspoon Press. Dr. Rigby first shows that social righteousness has a long

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Searching for God’s Economy in Protestant Theology

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  2011 by Robert Trawick View arti­cle in PDF (opti­mal for printing) [wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””] In his 1912 book Christianizing the Social Order, Walter Rauschenbusch wrote: Business life is the unregenerate section of our social order. If by some magic it could be plucked out of our total social

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