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100	1		_aSmith, James K. A., _d1970-
245	1	0	_aWho's afraid of relativism? : _bcommunity, contingency, and creaturehood / _cJames K.A. Smith.
264		1	_aGrand Rapids : _bBaker Academic, _c[2014]
300			_a186 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThe church and postmodern culture
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505	0		_a"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.
520			_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."--Publisher description.
650		0	_aPhilosophical theology.
650		0	_aRelativity.
650		0	_aPragmatism.
650		0	_aChristian philosophy.
600	1	0	_aWittgenstein, Ludwig, _d1889-1951.
600	1	0	_aRorty, Richard.
600	1	0	_aBrandom, Robert.
830		0	_aChurch and postmodern culture.
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