A Justice Primer

Synopsis

If God Is Just, And The Bible Is His Word, How Is It That Everyone Is In Such A Fog When It Comes To Actually Administering Justice? As A Culture, We Cry For Mercy When We're Hurt, And Lustily Pound The Gavel When Tables Turn. Civil Tyrants Regularly Trot Out The Thumbscrews And Red-hot-pokers, But Just A S Many Petty Gunslingers Take Pleasure In Targeting Whoever The Big Guy Happens To Be. Is That Justice?randy Booth And Douglas Wilson Bring Their Considerable Pastoral Experience To The Question Of Scriptural Standards For Justice, And Their Observations-that Almost Nobody Has A Firm Grasp Of What Justice Is Or How It Functions-are Sobering. This Is Because Maintaining A Strict Definition Of Justice Is Essential For Any Community, Great Or Small. In This Much-needed Exposition, Wilson And Booth Unpack God's Requirements For Witnesses, Victims, Due Process, And The Accused And Accuser, And Take To Task Some Of Our Favorite Injustices In Churches And Abroad: Anonymous Assertions, Rattling Off Charges, Double Standards, Judging Motives, And The Ubiquitous Trial By Internet.