A construção de uma agenda de investigação comum em um oceano de discordâncias

Abstract

This article tells the story of how a body of knowledge that does not even claim to be “scientific”, namely, the Theology of the New Testament, has managed to establish a common research agenda in a way that can hardly be seen (if it can at all!) in the sociological thought. It is usually assumed that sociological knowledge is fated to be fragmented because it cannot rely either on a hard core of empirical generalizations or on conceptions that are consensually accepted. However, New Testament theology also lacks all this, and yet this discipline does not fragment into “schools of thought” or “paradigms” which barely become aware of one another’s existence, as it happens as far as sociological theory, sociological approaches of modernity, the sociology of knowledge and many other areas of sociological knowledge are concerned.