Full name: Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism

Author: Douglas R. Groothuis Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Religion, Christianity, Philosophy, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780830822287 0830822283

A 2001 Christianity Today Award of Merit winnerThe concept of truth as absolute, objective and universal has undergone serious deterioration in recent years. No longer is it a goal for all to pursue. Rather postmodernism sees truth as inseparable from culture, psychology, race and gender. Ultimately, truth is what we make it to be. What factors have accelarated this decay of truth? Why are people willing to embrace such a devalued concept? How does this new view compare and contrast with a Christian understanding? While postmodernism contains some truthful insights (despite its attempt to dethrone truth), Douglas Groothuis sees its basic tenets as intellectually flawed and hostile to Christian views. In this spirited presentation of a solid, biblical and logical perspective, Groothuis unveils how truth has come under attack and how it can be defended in the vital areas of theology, apologetics, ethics and the arts. Similar books: Faith and Reason by Ronald H. Nash Relativism by Francis J. Beckwith Finding Truth by Nancy Pearcey The Gagging of God by D. A. Carson The God Who Is There by Francis A. Schaeffer Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein Thinkers of the East by Idries Shah On Relationship by Jiddu Krishnamurti Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein Musashi's Book of Five Rings by Stephen F. Kaufman Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics by Tara Smith The Warrior Within by John Little Nietzsche and Zen by Andre van der Braak Luhmann Explained by Hans-Georg Moeller Mind and World by John McDowell A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning by Ray Jackendoff Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead The Lunar Tao by Ming-Dao Deng