Tag: Christian social ethics

• Christian Anti-Capitalism

  Acts 2:37-47 – 8/4/2026 All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. Acts 2:44-45 (NRSVue) During my first semester in seminary, I took a theology course on the Lutheran Confessions, the foundational doctrinal documents of…

  Justin R Marquis

  August 9, 2026

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• The Necessity of Peace for Justice

  James 3:13-18 – 7/27/2026 The fruit of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:18 (NRSVue alternate translation) Christianity is a religion of peace. That which is just (also translated as “righteous”) is also peaceful and brought about through peaceful means. War is antithetical to the commands of Jesus and the…

  Justin R Marquis

  July 31, 2026

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• Commentary on the ELCA’s Social Statement on Economic Life

  by Justin Marquis

  Justin R Marquis

  June 9, 2026

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  Christian communism, Christian Ethics, Christian social ethics, christianity, economics, elca, ethics, leftism, lutheran, philosophy, social theory, theology