Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe

by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world

and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity.

Amen

hegemony is what takes place when a dominant group imposes its ideology on the rest of society:

“thus social control is achieved through conditioning rather than physical force or intimidation.”

Critical Theory as an expansion of Conflict Theory

Critical theory comes from conflict theory

“critical” is “geared toward identifying and exposing problems in order to facilitate revolutionary political change.”7 In other words, it implies revolution. It is not interested in reform.

Critical Theory is not just an analytical tool, as some have suggested; it is a philosophy, a worldview.

The individual racist need not exist to note that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture.