Theology of the Social Subject: The Spiritual Language of Sociality

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to argue for the social significance and effectiveness of the theological interpretation of societal conditions. To achieve this, methods of comparison, analysis, and commented citation are applied. Theology is called to interpret social reality in the light of the divine presence, aiming for a precise understanding of the synharmonicity between a believer's inner life in God and their social status, duties, and rights. A key point is the substantiation of the claim that the modern social subject gains the right — and the obligation! — to construct social modernity by taking into account the specifics of religious thinking and transforming modernity in the spirit of Christian commandments. Christian religiosity allows the social subject to assert the fullness of their social authenticity, transforms the concept of subjectivity, and effectively links a Christian's sociality with both preceding tradition and future salvation. The article concludes that the modernity of the social subject, having adopted a religious‑linguistic model of communication, is transformable in the spirit of divine presence. The social subject and social modernity are found to be aligned within the vector of the spiritual transformation of society through an understanding of the new social tasks facing social realities.