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Ly 1 Beverly Ly Robert Imperato Politics of Jesus REL-120 HA 05 December 2021 New Testament in relation to Social Justice There are different approaches and attitudes that work in relation to contemporary political chal- lenges, but one challenge that can be seen working in relations to those approaches and attitudes is social justice. Social Justice is equality of rights, opportunities, and treatment. In the New Tes- tament you can see instances of where the portrayed Jesus’ is showing social justice and break- ing boundaries that was built to prevent equal treatment. For example, in John 4 where Jesus chooses to converse with a Samaritan woman as he wanted a sip of water, even though everyone knows that the Jews don’t mix with Samaritan (John 4:7-11). He chooses to treat her like he would treat any other putting ethnicity aside. Another instance where the N.T. showing an ap- proach towards social justice would be in Luke’s Gospel. According to the book, Inquiry into the New Testament Ancient Context to Contemporary Significance and the bible, In Luke (10:25- 37) “A man fell victim to robbers as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.” But not one per- son who passed by went to help the man not the priest heading that way and not the Levite, but a Samaritan traveler who had helped the man (Landry pp.189-190). A Samaritan who is viewed as an enemy to Jews was made a Hero in the Bible the New Testament shows that there are in- stances in the bible and “Jesus’ challenge to the anti-Samaritan prejudice” that correlates and shows teaching towards modern social justice, (Imperato). Some other form includes the “teach-

Ly 2 ing of Jesus and the prophets required the church to align itself with the poor, to take their side in any conflict with the powerful and to advocate for political freedom and more just distribution of wealth” (Landry pp.421). showing that their request is to make sure think in the view and care for the poor, trying to create equality for the against those who want to be in power. And Act 17:25-28 where it is stated that God made everyone and basically saying that everyone is the same, made from the same thing and same person. These all show that in the New Testament there are many actions and statements that was stated and mention that correlated to modern problems and was used in a form of working against those challenges and problems.

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