Tag: Christian Smith
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Persons Versus Individuals – Margarita Mooney
Black White and Gray: More than Individuals: How Personalism Influences Social Theory and Research … [Christian] Smith writes that persons are not individuals, if the term individual is used to mean “discrete, self-contained, autonomous, self-existent selves,” (Smith, p. 67). Furthermore, persons are not “self-contained selves who subsequently engage and exchange with other selves in order…
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“What is Personalism? A Rectification of Individualism and Collectivism” – Margarita Mooney
Black, White, and Gray: What is Personalism? A Rectification of Individualism and Collectivism – Margarita Mooney … I was intrigued by the philosophy that could critique both the idea that economic prosperity is the final ends of individuals and societies and, at the same time, coherently argue against a collectivist system that denies private property,…
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“Why do Christians use statistics badly?” Brad Wright
Bradley Wright's Blog: Why do Christians use statistics badly? In a recent issue of Christianity Today’s magazine Books & Culture, Christian Smith, sociologist at Notre Dame, discusses the misuse of statistics by evangelical Christians. He writes: “American evangelicals, who profess to be committed to Truth, are among the worst abusers of simple descriptive statistics, which…
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Evangelicals Behaving Badly with Statistics
Christianity Today: Evangelicals Behaving Badly with Statistics by Christian Smith (HT Presbyweb) American evangelicals, who profess to be committed to Truth, are among the worst abusers of simple descriptive statistics, which claim to represent the truth about reality, of any group I have ever seen. At stake in this misuse are evangelicals' own integrity, credibility…