A Christian Sociology recognises that there are objective social relationships which can be judged better or worse from a doctrinal Christian standpoint. The Church historically and actually has something to say about the nature of government, the liberty of the person, economic justice and the right distribution of property. The key word of this sociological question for the Christian is justitia, which transcends questions of personal attitudes and connotes a ‘rightness’ in political economic and other social relationships themselves for the Christian faith to proclaim.

And the world which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new

Hath really neither joy, nor love nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, no help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.