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Social Theology is a new name to bring together a particular understanding of God and religion that was initiated by Max Weber. His line of thought can be found in a number of sociologists and theologians but has never been given a name not been made concerted use of in either discipline.

Weber's insight was that God is a representation of the human imposition of moral significance on a universe that is indifferent to human concerns. This means in effect that the Gods are not the backstop of religion they are representatives of the truly sacred fact that human life has to be made meaningful for it to be lived at all.

Weber presented this conclusion in his Sociology of Religion. Weber arrived at his conclusion by examining three different God systems and noting that they had in common the resolution of evil. Apocalyptic monotheism resolves