Ethnicity, Justice, and the People of God - Course Review

When a Facebook ad for NT Wright and Esau McCaulley's course, Ethnicity, Justice, and the People of God rolled by in my feed, I immediately signed up. I'd read some work from Wright, and loved McCaulley's book, "Reading While Black", so I knew this course would be helpful to me.

My hunch was right. McCaulley's lesson on "Sin and Systemic Injustice" in the second session is worth the price of the course alone. McCaulley makes the case that "sin is not limited to personal acts of animus" but sin can be perpetrated by institutions. In session four, "The Biblical Vision of Justice and the Nations", NT Wright takes the baton and dismantles Plato's influence on modern Evangelical Christianity's warped view of social justice.

The one ding I'll give on the course is that there's a rush of too many concepts to absorb in some of the lectures. I asked an assistant where could read up on some of the assertions Wright made that I wasn't familiar with, and I was given a few books of his to read. I'm grateful for the pointer because Wright's "How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels" gave me a much deeper, theological understanding of biblical justice than several other books that are specifically focused on justice.

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