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The Dangers of Social Justice Theology

This paper is due tomorrow, but I will probably have to shave off 500 words to get under the word count. For now, here it is. REFORMATION BIBLE COLLEGE FINAL PAPER THE DANGERS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE THEOLOGY GOSPEL AND ACTS BY THOMAS BOOHER SANFORD, FLORIDA DECEMBER, 2011                 Social justice is a term thrown around quite often today, in both religious and secular circles. It has recently received nation-wide media attention with Glenn Beck and Jim Wallis sparring with one another- Beck telling churchgoers to leave any church which uses the term “social justice” due to it being a perversion of the gospel, Wallis arguing that many churches, including evangelical and protestant, see social justice as central to the gospel. [1] Few, if any, in this debate deny that God is a just God, nor do many argue that we should not be striving for justice. What Beck sees as communism, Marxism, and immoral redistribution of wealth, Wallis sees as holdi