Abstract
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice . . . . Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.1
[T]he Church has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel. Thus, in language intelligible to each generation, she can respond to the perennial questions which men ask about this present life and the life to come, and about the relationship of the one to the other. We must therefore recognize and understand the world in which we live, its explanations, its longings, and its often dramatic characteristics.2
First Page
45
Recommended Citation
Barry
Sullivan,
Prophesy, Public Theology, and Questions of Justice: Some Modest Reflections,
50
Loy. U. Chi. L. J.
45
(2020).
Available at:
https://lawecommons.luc.edu/luclj/vol50/iss1/7