Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Perkins’ “With Justice For All” - A Review. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This is a 7 page paper that provides an overview of Perkins' "With Justice for All". A critical analysis of Perkins' view of the church's role in working for social justice is conducted. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Page Count:
7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: KW60_KFcomdev.doc
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
of America. Everyone is familiar with examples of institutional injustice such as wealthy or famous individuals being acquitted in trials while poorer individuals are convicted on lesser evidence, or the
commonly cited fact that nearly all the United States wealth is possessed and withheld by less than one percent of the total population. Common are the complaints about social injustice;
fewer are the proposed solution. This is precisely what makes John Perkins With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development such a compelling read. Perkins, a Christian minister, asserts
that the modern Christian church holds a great deal of responsibility as administrators of social justice, not in an organizational or political capacity, but in an individualistic and humanistic capacity.
His text calls for a renewal of the quality of "discipleship", and calls for Christians to emulate three specific traits of Christ (relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution) in order to practically
manifest social justice in the local sphere, and institute lasting change in society as a whole. In this paragraph, the student is assisted in presenting a foundational view of
the problem of social injustice, key to analyzing Perkins text. Perkins begins his work with a comprehensive overview of the issue of social injustice. While this is necessarily a broad
and multifaceted topic, Perkins does a good job of hitting the key points, and developing his theme that social justice work is better served by individuals looking at the racial
and cultural divides that enable institutional injustice, rather than directly interacting with institutional injustice, a process that has largely proven to be ineffective in generating social change besides obvious exceptions
such as the civil rights movement in the 1960s (Perkins 2007, pp. 1-13). For Perkins, since particular examples of injustice nearly always involve some racial or cultural division, it is
...