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Challenging Sociological Reductionism
Author(s) -
Gushee David P.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/jore.12047
Subject(s) - reductionism , epistemology , secularization , humanism , sociology , field (mathematics) , perspective (graphical) , philosophy , virtue , sociological theory , theology , mathematics , pure mathematics , geometry
The author analyzes C hristian S mith's What Is a Person? from a C hristian theological‐ethical perspective, assessing the way in which he tackles sociological theories that reflect secularized and reductionist assumptions about the human person, and offering a friendly critique of the C hristian personalist, humanist, and virtue ethic that he deploys to challenge his field.