Kierkegaard's Theological Sociology: Prophetic Fire for the Present Age Author: Paul Tyson Retail Price: $22.00 Our Price: $19.80 Save: 2.20 (10.00%) Availability: In Stock        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. Similar Items you may enjoy! Kierkegaard's Theological Sociology Author: Paul Tyson Our Price: $37.80 British Evangelical Identities Past and Present, Volume 1: Aspects of the History and Sociology of Evangelicalism in Britain and Ireland Our Price: $36.00 Like Fire in the Bones: Listening for the Prophetic Word in Jeremiah Author: Walter Brueggemann Our Price: $40.38 Demystifying the Prophetic/Understanding the Voice of God for the Coming Days of Fire Author: Joseph Z Our Price: $15.99

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