A new collection of essays, to which Redeemer faculty contributed, explores a number of questions related to the church鈥檚 witness to society: Why is the church significant? How should it speak and act鈥揳nd who should do the speaking and acting?
The collection, titled The Church鈥檚 Social Responsibility: Reflections on Evangelicalism and Social Justice, was edited by Dr. Robert Joustra and by Jordan Ballor of the Acton Institute. Dr. David Koyzis contributed the essay, A Neo-Calvinist Ecclesiology, and Dr. Kevin Flatt wrote the epilogue.
In the volume鈥檚 introduction, Joustra writes:
鈥淚t has long been the conviction of Christian social thought that 鈥榯he Church鈥 has a social responsibility. Back in our grandparents鈥, and great-grandparents鈥 day, that responsibility was obvious. The Church ran schools. It ran hospitals. It ran out-of-the-cold programs and homeless shelters. It spoke with weight and power about international and local issues. But those days in North America are long gone, and many of those churches are long gone, as Kevin Flatt writes in . The decline in organized religion is real, and the influence of organized religion in North America has long collapsed and is by now overgrown. So what voice should the Church have today in North America, what should it speak about and who speaks for it? Those are the questions that bind together this new book.鈥
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