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The Social Justice Gospel on display: Strawman attacks, ethnic Gnosticism and theological illiteracy

You can tell evangelical progressives are nervous about the critique of the Social Justice movement by the ludicrous strawman attack presented by The Gospel Coalition.

TGC interviewer: Why do some evangelicals confuse social ministry with Marxism?

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Professor: Because they’ve bought into a cultural narrative that was shaped in the 20th century, when the ideological enemy was communism (the Cold War and all that), which was understood by many between the 1920s and the 1970s as the Antichrist. It is not easy to shake off this ethos.