Social Justice Fallacies
The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot stand up to documented facts, which are often the opposite of what is widely believed. However attractive the social justice vision, the crucial question is whether the social justice agenda will get us to the fulfillment of that vision. History shows that the social justice agenda has often led in the opposite direction, sometimes with catastrophic consequences. More things are involved besides simply mistakes. All human beings are fallible, and social justice advocates may not necessarily make any more mistakes than others. But crusaders with an utter certainty about their mission are often undeterred by obstacles, evidence or even fatal dangers. That is where much of the Western world is today. The question is whether we will continue on heedlessly, past the point of no return.
Agenda for Social Justice
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. It offers recommendations for action around key issues for social justice.
The Magellan Fallacy
The first and only study to date of the Spanish-language literature of both Southeast Asia and West Africa
The Bible, Sexuality, and Culture
We are living in a rapidly changing culture. Since the 1960s, the changes in our sexual ethics have become increasingly problematic. How are people--especially Evangelicals and other conservative Christians--supposed to respond? Does the Bible address these seismic changes? How is a believer supposed to raise a family in the cultural chaos of the twenty-first century? If you have asked any of these questions before, then this book is for you. Peterson argues forcefully that the changes in our culture are a direct result of a postmodern and post-Christian cultural rejection of the mandates established by God in the opening two chapters of Genesis. The reason Western culture is imploding morally is directly connected to the Enemy's undoing of each of the Genesis mandates established by God for human and cultural flourishing. With Western culture's rejection or undoing of every one of God's mandates in Genesis, is there any hope for the survival of once-thriving Judeo-Christian cultures? Peterson tackles these and many other issues in a forthright and unreserved manner. This book is not for the faint of heart. It is a call for a return to cultural sanity rooted in the fear of God and his Word.
Society and Social Justice: a Nexus in Review
The author explores a nexus of varied abstract issues and protean realities that relates to social justice, its complex manifestations and inordinate conundrums. Its counter-factual to think of a world without a social problem. The author, based on his half-a-century of experience, deep insight, and vast knowledge, thinks otherwise. He offers a cross-sectional analysis of his work as a social worker, thinker, educator, writer and critique. The multi-linearity of five elemental themeshuman condition, theoretico-philosophical streams, social constructs and intervention, international social development and, finally, society, science and values offers a prismatic view of the authors previously published sixteen books. Unlike any other anthology or a reader, this omnibus combs through a complex opus of varied subjects and topics that synergize a symbiotic interface between humanities and social sciences.
