{"id":704,"date":"2014-05-06T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/05\/god-among-the-religions.html"},"modified":"2014-05-06T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T12:22:00","slug":"god-among-the-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/05\/god-among-the-religions.html","title":{"rendered":"God Among the Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

It\u2019s not fashionable to talk about \u201cthe truth\u201d in matters of religion. A popular objection to religious tradition goes, \u201cI don\u2019t believe that any single religious tradition can claim to have figured out the truth. Look at how many different religions there are. Look at their different cultural backgrounds, their different basic assumptions. How could anyone rationally adjudicate between all their contesting claims about ultimate reality? And if no rational decision can be made between them, then it\u2019s sheer arrogance for any religion to make an absolute and exclusive claim to the truth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem with this popular sentiment\u2014what I call \u201cthe pluralistic objection\u201d\u2014is that it leaves itself with nowhere to stand. For we are all in the business of making exclusive truth-claims, even though we all stand within some particular perspective or tradition. I think that these two facts are not incompatible, and that it still makes sense to talk about \u201cthe truth,\u201d even in this pluralistic age.<\/p>\n

I see three positions that the pluralist objector might adopt.
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It\u2019s not fashionable to talk about \u201cthe truth\u201d in matters of religion. A popular objection to religious tradition goes, \u201cI don\u2019t believe that any single religious tradition can claim to have figured out the truth. Look at how many different religions there are. Look at their different cultural backgrounds, their different basic assumptions. How could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nGod Among the Religions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s not fashionable to talk about \u201cthe truth\u201d in matters of religion. 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