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This book is a philosophical examination of the relationship between religion and social justice. Its main thesis is that, since the primary purpose of religion is the moral and spiritual transformation of human nature, it ought not to be construed as a direct instrument of social justice on earth - as it is by Liberation theologians, for example, as well as by many liberal Christians and Jews. Indirectly, however, religion may well be a pre-condition of social justice. For it can be argued that, without the counteracting effects of the moral and spiritual values prescribed by religion, the liberal vision of individual rights and social justice may be self-defeating. Humanity is best served if this liberal vision is counterbalanced by the completely contrary utopia enshrined in the biblical idea of the kingdom of God, and its equivalents in the other great religions of the world.
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Michael Tomscha
reviewed Religion and Social Justice on July 12, 2018
Religion and Social Justice
The book is comprised of several short articles by a plethora of authors in the fields of science, religion, and philosophy. They all focus on points found in the intersection of science and religion, from predictable subjects such as evolution and free will to more obscure topics like cloning, extra-terrestrial life, and intelligent robots.
The book is already dated, published in 2000 when Dolly the cloned sheep was still a novelty and the human genome project was barely underway. This, in combination with the shortness and shallowness of each of the articles, makes it a dull read. Because the articles are each less than four pages, they cannot explore more than the surface of whichever topic they are discussing. There is a lot of overlap between articles, which are each written by a different author.
God for the 21st Century looks at an important topic with good intentions, but unfortunately it makes a potentially interesting book rather dull-ish.
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