Tender Love and a Chastened Approach

I’m reading an advance copy of Tim Keller’s new book Generous Justice. It is quite good. I’ll write more about it later. Keller makes a compelling case that Christians who know God’s grace will share God’s concern for justice.
This sentence gets to the heart of the book:

If God’s character includes a zeal for justice that leads him to have the tenderest love and closest involvement with the socially weak, then what should God’s people be like? (8)

In a slightly different vein, I thought this was a good line too, which Keller includes (approvingly it seems) in a footnote:

In the end, [Dan] Strange, [D.A.] Carson, and [James] Hunter all recommend a chastened approach that engages culture but without the triumphalism of transformationism. All of them also insist that the priority of the institutional church must be to preach the Word, rather than to “change culture.” (223)

Kevin DeYoung