Social Justice

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Oct 2, 2026 · 6m

In “Social Justice,” Rushdoony argues that modern social justice is not a Biblical concern but a humanistic doctrine rooted in the self-deification of intellectual elites who replace God’s law with their own autonomous reason, making justice whatever they declare it to be. Whereas Biblical law flows from the nature and authority of the sovereign God repeatedly grounded in the declaration “I am the Lord” social justice arises from man as the ultimate judge, turning law into a weapon of moral absolutism wielded by those who see themselves as virtue incarnate and their opponents as evil or…