The saints are responsible for the structure of the social world in which they find themselves. The structure is not simply part of the order of nature; to the contrary, it is the result of human decision, and be concerted effort it can be altered. Indeed, it should be altered, for it is a fallen structure (p. 3).
I have suggested that the emergence of original Calvinism represented a fundamental alteration in Christian sensibility, from the vision and practice of turning away from the social world in order to seek closer union with God to the vision and practice of working to reform the social world in obedience to God (p. 11).
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Until Justice and Peace Embrace (Eerdmans, 1983)
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