Faith in History and Society (A Study of the Basic Theology of a Practice)

Author: (German) J.B. Metz, translated by Zhu Yanbing
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Publish Date: 1996-11-01
Features: Theological thought and its academic nature have an undeniable practical relationship with historical and social contexts and the state of knowledge. How to understand and grasp this relationship has always been a subject of controversy in the academic world. Knowledge sociology holds that historical and social contexts have a decisive influence on the construction of theological thought. This analytical principle does not mean that the influence of social contexts is linear or results in a single outcome. In other words, within the same historical and social context, different theologians may have different intellectual responses and constructions.