SPEAR DANE: Good analysis.

Yes, Sider did tone it down. I have some sympathies towards Sider because I think he had good intentions (soft heart and a soft head perhaps) but each later edition toned down his socialism more and more.

You are right, whether Chilton went off the deep end into preterism or not, this book in question was very well written and really did rebut the socialist practices advocated by Sider.

It is ironic, we have one orthodox person that possibly went into preterism rebutting a socialist who later became a capitalist. Sider's ability to grow and change says a lot about his humbleness (hopefully).


I really do see books about social justice and the poor as lacking in the Reformed Tradition and so it does grieve me a bit that the only book most reformed folks can say they read about these issues was a reaction.

That really is my main contention I am fighting for here: that a truly positive reformed treatment of social justice and the poor be written....and not merely written as a reaction (and written irenically and not in the ascerbic style of Chilton and Gary North)

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