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Kierkegaard's Theological Sociology

by Tyson Paul Tyson

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • 14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

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Kierkegaard developed a distinctive type of sociology in the 1840s--a theological sociology. Looking at society through the lens of analysis categories such as worship, sin, and faith, Kierkegaard developed a profoundly insightful way of understanding how, for example, the modern mass media works. He gets right inside the urban world of Golden Age Denmark, and its religion, and analyses "the present age" of consumption, comfort, competition, distraction, and image-construction with astonishing depth. To Kierkegaard worship centers all individuals and all societies; hence his sociology is doxological. This book argues that we also live in the present age Kierkegaard described, and our way of life can be understood much better through Kierkegaard's lens than through the methodologically materialist categories of classical sociology. As social theory itself has moved beyond classical sociology, the social sciences are increasingly open to post-methodologically-atheist approaches to understanding what it means to be human beings living in social contexts. The time is right to recover the theological resources of Christian faith in understanding the social world we live in. The time has come to pick up where Kierkegaard left off, and to start working towards a prophetic doxological sociology for our times.
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  • Author

    Tyson Paul Tyson

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cascade Books

  • Published

    March 2019

  • Weight

    200g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781532648250

  • ISBN-10

    1532648251

  • Eden Code

    4996099

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