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  • Justice Discourse in the Internet Age, Pt. I: Introduction

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    Justice Discourse in the Internet Age, Pt. I: Introduction

    Writing almost two decades ago, René Girard—who devoted most of his life to exploring the issues of social contagion, scapegoating, victims, and the cults that surround them—warned against the rise of what he termed a ‘victimology’ movement.

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  • Justice Discourse in the Internet Age, Pt. II

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    Justice Discourse in the Internet Age, Pt. II

    In my introductory article to this series, I argued that, in the socially saturated context of online media, social justice discourse frequently functions as a means of fashioning and maintaining our public image.

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  • Justice Discourse in the Internet Age, Pt. III

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    Justice Discourse in the Internet Age, Pt. III

    In Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Neil Postman quotes a passage from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate…we are eager to tunnel under the…

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  • Hemmingsen on Three Kinds of Justice

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    Hemmingsen on Three Kinds of Justice

    Christian justice, as Hemmingsen defines it, is “the obedience of Christ imputed to the one who believes.” The one who is just “evangelically,” or “according to the gospel,” is the one whose sins are forgiven and to whom the justice of the Son has been imputed.

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