Vern S. Poythress, Redeeming Sociology: A God-Centered Approach (Wheaton: Crossway, 2011), 352pp., ISBN 9781433521294.
I don’t know they manage to do it, but this brand new book is freely available in its entirety as a 3.4 MB pdf here.
It’s along the same lines as Poythress’ earlier Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach (2006) and In the Beginning Was the Word: Language—A God-Centered Approach (2009).
This one is centred around social relationships:
‘God is the Creator of the whole world in all its dimensions. He has established his own wise order for our relationships. His order and his presence are essential to life and to relationships. We need to learn how to praise God for the world of relationships that he has given us’ (11).
Alongside Scripture, he names Abraham Kuyper as a source for his thinking; but as he nicely notes:
‘In the generations after Kuyper a number of people took up Kuyper’s challenge. They worked at transformation of thought. Advances took place. But along with the advances came some misjudgments, in my opinion. So work still needs to be done. And that is why I am writing. Reflection needs to continue in the natural sciences and in linguistics and sociology. So I have produced the books in these three areas. Others, I hope, will build on what I have done and will correct what I still have left amiss’ (14).
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