Who's afraid of relativism? : community, contingency, and creaturehood /
"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 ab...
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
Baker Academic,
[2014]
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| Series: | Church and postmodern culture.
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Table of Contents:
- "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.