Theology and Sociology 15 (1968) 203-208

Abstract

Theologians have sometimes been accused of using theology as a pretext to interfere with sociology, politics or the sciences. It would not be difficult to twist the argument and accuse sociologists, politicians or scientists of interfering with theology. Jesus was already condemned as a political agitator. Early Christians burned in the name of loyalty to the emperor. Marxist atheism itself stems partly from a socio-economic theory of man and partly from naive optimism. Philosophy, politics, art, sociology are always exposed to incursions, more or less profound, into the terrain of what have rightly been called frontier questions. For this reason theology cannot ignore these problems which concern man as such. It is precisely in the encounter with these problems, which are always new, that theology discovers the virtues contained in the revealed word.