True justice restores right relationships

Biblical justice is relational. At the roots of biblical justice is the creation and sustaining of right relationships between people.

Justice, in biblical terms, is doing all that is necessary to maintain health, equitable and life-giving relationships between people. Biblical justice seeks to put right relationships that have gone wrong and to reconstruct or redeem situations to create right relationships.

From the 2006 Coutts Memorial Lecture, given by Major Campbell Roberts at The Salvation Army College of Further Education in Sydney, Australia. Part 3 of 5 on the centrality of Biblical Justice.

Major Campbell Roberts is the Director of The New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga Territory Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit. Campbell has spent a lifetime of work as a Salvation Army Officer working on issues of social policy and  programmes that will assist people in poverty in New Zealand. His past roles have included national directorship of The Salvation Army Social services, and the command  of The Salvation Army in the South Island.

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