The Word and the World: Theology After The Sociology of Knowledge

by Dan Frank

Overview

If one accepts the basic premise of the sociology of knowledge - that
our truths are values, culturally produced and culturally relative - then theology becomes problematic. Theology
wishes
to retain disciplinary autonomy. but the sociology of knowledge does
not respect the boundaries that we erect between different kinds
of knowledge. It is this particular challenge that is addressed in this
most original book.

Dan
Frank argues that what is needed is a step-by-step re-evaluation of the
traditional theological affirmations in terms of these new cognitive
criteria, and theorizes that a new theology could be constructed by
critical reflection of the success and failures of modernity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826499820
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/09/2007
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Dan Frank completed hisresearch at London University and then took up the post of Literary Editor of The Catholic Herald. He died in 2005 at the age of twenty four.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Sociology of Knowledge
Mannheim and Ideology
Social Construction
Sociology and Theology
Reductionism and Methodological AtheismConclusion