Who's Afraid of Relativism? Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood

Name: Who's Afraid of Relativism? Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
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ISBN: 9780801039737

ISBN-10: 0801039738

ISBN-13: 9780801039737

Edition: 2014

Authors: James Smith

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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)…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 4/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

James Smith is Lecturer in English Literature at Durham University. Author of a critical study on the work of Terry Eagleton (2008), he has published widely in journals such as New Theatre Quarterly and Literature and History. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2007.