Thinking Christianly About Justice

Justice, Equality, and Human Rights are all hotly contested topics in Europe and across the world today. This three-part series explores the biblical view of justice and the biblical foundations for equality. It looks at the ways in which Christians contributed to the development of human rights. It seeks to understand the ideas about human nature and human fulfilment underlying the ways in which justice, equality, freedom, and human rights are being distorted and weaponised today. You should leave this seminar with more confidence in the Christian vision for a good society.

A biblical understanding of justice fills out the classical understanding of justice as 'treating others in the way that is due to them'. In the second part of this series, we look at the relational nature of justice in the Bible and social and structural justice from a biblical perspective. We explore how biblical justice treats individuals and groups fairly and how it differs from contemporary accounts of social justice.