What is Critical Social Justice? An Anatomy of an Ideology
This paper was presented at the TTC Faculty Colloquium on 26 July 2024
In recent decades, a new ideology has emerged which radically distorts received notions of justice which have their roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition. This new understanding of ‘social justice’ has made its way into what theologian David Tracy has described as the three ‘publics’ – academia, society and the church (or religious community).1 It has so distorted Western society’s understanding of human sociality and public order that behaviours that have been conventionally viewed as anarchist and destructive are now valorised.
Click here to read the whole paper.
Dr Roland Chia is Chew Hock Hin Professor at Trinity Theological College (Singapore) and Theological and Research Advisor of the Ethos Institute for Public Christianity.