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. © 2014 Journal of Religious Ethics, Inc.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 138-145 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Religious Ethics |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2014 |
Keywords
- dignity
- humanism
- moral relativism
- personalism
- personhood
- scientistic reductionism
- secularization
- social constructionism
- sociology
- virtue ethics