ABSTRACT
Science most often builds its idea of society upon its idea of person. This chapter provides answer for a companion question, "What is society?" and finds that where the society of science is troubled, the society of the Church is not. It addresses the same issues. In view of the individualism of most scientific thinking about society, it bears noting that the founders of social science began their study of society differently, not upon an idea of society as structure, but upon an idea of society as a real entity, as an integral organism unto itself. The scientific idea of society is confused about how society relates to the individual. According to Christian theology, the truth of society, like the truth of the person, is to find in the perfect love of the Trinity: in the God of one substance in three persons.
