True Truth

by Lindsley, Art

• ISBN13: 9780830832354
• ISBN10: 0830832351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Ivp Books

Summary

Conventional wisdom holds that any belief inabsolutes,especially of a religious nature, leads inevitably to the oppressiveabsolutismof such movements as the Inquisition, the Crusades and even Nazism. As a result, Christian apologists have been hard-pressed to make a case for the rational absolutes that are a necessary part of belief in Jesus.Art Lindsley takes up the task inTrue Truth.While maintaining the indispensability of absolutes, he ably demonstrates that faith in Christ is necessarily opposed to and incompatible with the abuses of oppression, arrogance, intolerance, self-righteousness, closed-mindedness and defensiveness. Surprisingly, Lindsley shows that it is relativism which often harbors dangerous, inflexible absolutisms.Here is a book that actively challenges the dismissal of truth, preparing the way for more effectively proclaiming the gospel and living Christianly in a postmodern world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(4)
PART 1: ABSOLUTES WITHOUT ABSOLUTISM
1. What Is Truth?	13	(9)
2. True Tolerance	22	(12)
3. Right, Not Righteous	34	(10)
4. Assertions Without Arrogance	44	(14)
5. Infallible Absolutes, Fallible People	58	(11)
6. Infallible Absolutes, Fallen Situations	69	(7)
7. Defense Without Defensiveness	76	(9)
PART 2: ARGUMENT AGAINST RELATIVISM
8. When Arguments Fail	85	(18)
9. Absolutists in Disguise?	103	(13)
10. Consequences of the Denial	116	(11)
11. Relativism Self-Destructs	127	(14)
12. Everybody's Right and Nobody's Right	141	(14)
13. No Room for Evil	155	(17)
14. Truth That Transforms	172	(3)
Notes	175	(10)
Recommended Books	185