Over the last two years, many evangelicals have stood in alarm at what seems to be a concerted effort to shift the direction of conservative evangelicalism towards social justice. Whole conferences have been devoted to it. New leaders have arisen, seemingly from nowhere, as spokespersons for particular issues of justice, and popular evangelical blogs now devote considerable attention to it. Social justice dominates evangelical discourse.
Where are the proponents and logic of social justice leading us? What is the goal of this shift in evangelicalism? The direction seems to be coming into view: identity politics.
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