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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The quartet of the vulnerable | widows, fatherless, immigrants the poor |
| Biblical Justice begins with: | A growing understanding of God’s grace. |
| what are "vertical” and “horizontal” relationships. | |
| Sedeq or sedaqa: | RIGHTEOUSNESS – “Conformity to what is right or expected... according to the demands of the relationship or the nature of the situation.” |
| Mishpat: | JUSTICE – “What needs to be done in a given situation if people and circumstance are to be restored to conformity with sedeq.” |
| What is Biblical Justice? | Primary Justice- when things are as they ought to be- God's Shalom Secondary Justice- working to restore God’s creation to God’s original intent- his shalom |
| Reality: | One gets more than is needed while the other gets less than is needed, thus a huge disparity is created |
| Equality: | The assumption is that everyone benefits from the same support this is considered to be equal treatment. |
| Equity: | everyone gets the support they need, which produces equity. |
| Race | a socio-political construct that categorizes people based on perceived physical characteristics. |
| Polygenesis: | The theory that races (ethnic groups) do not share a common origin (such as denying a common origin between European and non-European peoples). This view cannot be supported scientifically. |
| Ethnicity: | Refers to distinct sociocultural groups who share a perceived common heritage or narrative, religion, culture, nationality, or race, [and may include geographical region]. |
| Nationality: | The status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth of naturalizations. |
| Racism: | The diminishment of worth in men and women and through bias, systems and power structures that disadvantage them in tangible ways based on skin color. (Ken Wytsma) |
| Soft White Supremacy | Includes “complicity in benefiting from racialized systems.” ....is our current reality of: Racial profiling Mass incarceration of minorities Highly segregated society |
| mplicit Bias: | Includes the subconscious feelings, attitudes, prejudices and stereotypes an individual has developed due to prior influenced and imprints throughout their lives. Individuals are unaware of. |
| White privilege | “Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words, it is a privilege to ignore the consequence of race in America.” (Wytsma p.5) |