A Berean's Response to the Social Justice Gospel by Daniel Phillip Knapp IIMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Dan Knapp’s self-published book is a great service to the church.
Most critiques of Social Justice and woke-ism careen quickly into the political, giving off more heat than light. Carl Trueman’s work in this is helpful, historically and academically. But generally, there is more rhetoric about how atrocious and unjust CRT is, than there is rational refutation of it. I’ve seldom seen CRT detailed in plain English as I’ve seen Knapp do here.
Walking in turn through Social Gospel, Critical Race theory, and Intersectionality, Knapp explains clearly how these have led to school board fights, multi-cultural relativism, “hashtivism,” corporate wokeness, and the new racism of “anti-racism.”
Best of all, Knapp applies Scriptural principles of justice throughout. He appeals not just to an intuitive sense that these concepts are not fair, but spells out from the Bible how they are unbiblical.
Even with some unpolished grammar and spelling, being self-published, this is a rare 5 stars, in my book!
Disclosure: I know the author personally – he and his family regularly attend the church I serve. It’s still true that haven’t seen a better, plain, biblical critique of CRT anywhere.
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