Miroslav Volf on Adam Smith

This is one of a series of posts developing material read for a Gordon-Conwell course on Social Justice for the efforts of Christ the King Presbyterian Church to reach out to our city.  The full index of such posts can be found here.  Critical comments are encouraged.
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One of the books I’m currently reading is Miroslav Volf’s [...]

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First Sunday after Pentecost (Trinity Sunday)

‘By “putting forward” the Son, as the apostle Paul wrote, isn’t the Father abusing the Son? Doesn’t substitution constitute another wrongdoing, this time against the innocent Christ?… The Father would be abusing the Son and committing divine wrongdoing – rather than taking away human wrongdoing – if Christ were a third party, beyond God who [...]

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Wolterstorff on Kuyper and Solidarity; Volf on Solidarity and Repentance

Following his review of some of Calvin’s thoughts on the poor in Chapter 4 of Until Justice and Peace Embrace (to which the page numbers in this post refer, unless noted otherwise), Wolterstorff turns to the restating of some of the same themes by Dutch Christian statesman Abraham Kuyper. In 1891, early in the [...]

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