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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...

discussions. Ignoring these contemporary realities probably explains why debates over church, state and public justice frequently generate more heat than light. Political theorist Michael Walzer notes that the English Puritans believed that “the saints were responsible for the world—as medieval men were not—and responsible above all for its continual reformation. Their enthusiastic and purposive activity
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