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Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views is unavailable, but you can change that!

Abortion. Physician-assisted suicide. Same-sex marriages. Embryonic stem-cell research. Poverty. Crime. What is a faithful Christian response? The God of the Bible is unquestionably a God of justice. Yet Christians have had their differences as to how human government and the church should bring about a just social order. Although Christians share many deep and significant theological...

broadest form it refers to the creation of a civil and fair social order. Yet the term can have more specific connotations that have to do with both distributive justice (or a just distribution of the benefits and burdens of society), which ensures that people are treated equitably in the distribution of benefits, and regulative justice, which protects the natural rights of citizens.10 While the introduction uses the term in its looser form, the individual authors define the term for themselves.
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