Not exact matches
In the absence of any concerted effort toward arriving at a univocal Biblically based definition of «
justice,»
evangelicals have too often adopted certain
working definitions from the American culture.
I keep hoping that
evangelicals will not think my
work compromises their emphases on the love of Jesus and on biblical authority, and that liberals will not suppose it is inconsistent with intellectual openness or commitment to peace and
justice.
In this period when vast numbers of Christians called themselves
evangelicals, the word connoted both a passion for evangelism and a commitment to
work vigorously for
justice in society.
We are well used to such
Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common
work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social
justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.