Critical Theory and the Social Justice Movement
The Western tradition has been asking questions like “what is good?” and “what is justice?” for millennia. Both Christians and non-Christians have attempted to provide answers consistent with their philosophical and theological pre-commitments, leading them to very different conceptions of what a good life and a just society look like. In recent decades and especially in the last few years, questions of social justice have come to dominate our cultural discourse. But what is “social justice”? And is it compatible with Christianity?
