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Who`s Afraid of Relativism? - Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood (Paperback)
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Who`s Afraid of Relativism? - Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood (Paperback)
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Following his successful "Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?" leading
Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith introduces the
philosophical sources behind postliberal theology. Offering a
provocative analysis of relativism, Smith provides an introduction
to the key voices of pragmatism: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Richard
Rorty, and Robert Brandom.
Many Christians view relativism as the antithesis of absolute truth
and take it to be the antithesis of the gospel. Smith argues that
this reaction is a symptom of a deeper theological problem: an
inability to honor the contingency and dependence of our
creaturehood. Appreciating our created finitude as the condition
under which we know (and were made to know) should compel us to
appreciate the contingency of our knowledge without sliding into
arbitrariness. Saying "It depends" is not the equivalent of saying
"It's not true" or "I don't know." It is simply to recognize the
conditions of our knowledge as finite, created, social beings.
Pragmatism, says Smith, helps us recover a fundamental Christian
appreciation of the contingency of creaturehood.
This addition to an acclaimed series engages key thinkers in modern
philosophy with a view to ministry and addresses the challenge of
relativism in a creative, original way.
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