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Challenging Sociological Reductionism |
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| Authors: | David P. Gushee |
| Abstract: | The author analyzes Christian Smith's What Is a Person? from a Christian 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 Christian personalist, humanist, and virtue ethic that he deploys to challenge his field. |
| Keywords: | sociology personhood scientistic reductionism humanism dignity moral relativism secularization personalism virtue ethics social constructionism |