Who's afraid of relativism? : (Record no. 135622)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780801039737 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 0801039738 |
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| Classification number | BT 40 .S656 2014 |
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| Holding library | VF$A |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Smith, James K. A., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1970- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Who's afraid of relativism? : |
| Remainder of title | community, contingency, and creaturehood / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | James K.A. Smith. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Grand Rapids : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Baker Academic, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2014] |
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| Extent | 186 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | The church and postmodern culture |
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| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | "It depends" : creation, contingency, and the specter of relativism -- Community as context : Wittgenstein on "meaning as use" -- Who's afraid of contingency? : owning up to our creaturehood with Rorty -- Reasons to believe : making faith explicit after Brandom -- The (inferential) nature of doctrine : postliberalism as Christian pragmatism -- Epilogue: How to be a conservative relativist. |
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| Summary, etc. | "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."--Publisher description. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Philosophical theology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Relativity. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Pragmatism. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Christian philosophy. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wittgenstein, Ludwig, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1889-1951. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Rorty, Richard. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Brandom, Robert. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Church and postmodern culture. |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Storms Research Center | Storms Research Center | Main Collection | 10/28/2025 | BT 40 .S656 2014 | 98648696 | 10/28/2025 | 12.91 | 10/28/2025 | Book |