Review of: Globalization and the Good

Abstract

Because of our implicit adoption of Greek dualism in much of our thought life, evangelicals often fail to develop a biblically sound social theology and social ethic.  I am convinced that such a sound theology is inescapably part of a covenantal science of mission (missiology).  Christianized Greek dualism, with its explicit emphasis upon human epistemological autonomy and its nature-grace distinction, fails in its goal to create a Christian response to such contemporary human dilemmas as globalization, world poverty, and economics.  All of these issues are discussed in this collection of articles mostly by British evangelicals.  The articles, with a couple of exceptions, however, fail to break out of dualism, human autonomy, and the subsequent captivity to a more or less conservative form of modernity.