tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309718.post110442869389552441..comments2023-10-30T04:35:26.999-06:00Comments on Every Thought Captive: The Battle for the Emergent ChurchPhil Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948892557259431751noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309718.post-1105483186887266562005-01-11T15:39:00.000-07:002005-01-11T15:39:00.000-07:00PGE-
Thanks for your thoughts.
Do you mean "real...PGE-<br /><br />Thanks for your thoughts.<br /><br /><I>Do you mean "reality" or do you mean "true statements" or do you mean "honest utterances"? I assume you do not mean the last.</I>I do mean something like “reality” or “the way things are in reality.” I don’t believe at all that Poststructuralism has accurately taken anything to task. If anything, it has cut off the very branch it is tryingPhil Steigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948892557259431751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309718.post-1105473705661408712005-01-11T13:01:00.000-07:002005-01-11T13:01:00.000-07:00P.S. Please see here for a quick sketch of my vie...P.S. <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Finkan.blogspot.com%2F2005%2F01%2Frightly-deontologizing-word-of-truth.html" TITLE="pgepps on post-structuralist fundamentalism on Comment Me No Comments">Please see here</A> for a quick sketch of my views on modernism and postmodernism.pgeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00778075334003141988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309718.post-1105472792042057712005-01-11T12:46:00.000-07:002005-01-11T12:46:00.000-07:00"Objectivity" is one thing. "Truth" is another. ..."Objectivity" is one thing. "Truth" is another. Of course there is truth, and obviously if I believe in an inerrant, infallible Scripture, I believe in truth--and that what it teaches about humanity and God are true.<br /><br />I don't think "objective truth" is redundant so much as--not technically incoherent, but missing the point by so much it's close.<br /><br />For one thing, and the pgeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00778075334003141988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309718.post-1104773143049289672005-01-03T10:25:00.000-07:002005-01-03T10:25:00.000-07:00PGE-
In one sense you are correct-I believe that ...PGE-<br /><br />In one sense you are correct-I believe that the phrase “objective truth” is a little redundant. To speak of truth in such a way as to get to what it really is, is to imply a kind of objectivity, or a transcultural nature.<br /><br />In another sense, I find it important to classify my use of the idea truth with the word “objective” in order to define my usage. So many people do Phil Steigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948892557259431751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309718.post-1104721567041559592005-01-02T20:06:00.000-07:002005-01-02T20:06:00.000-07:00PGE,
Concerning objective truth. I would say a few...PGE,<br />Concerning objective truth. I would say a few things. Admittedly, to a non-philosopher like myself, I would say that to believe in objective truth requires a few pre-suppositions. <br />1. Anthropology: As a Christian, I believe that God has given the believer the faculty to know God. God is the object of our knowledge and as a subject I am capable of knowing that object. Paul says thisbradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12080933939520737891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309718.post-1104590473742451822005-01-01T07:41:00.000-07:002005-01-01T07:41:00.000-07:00OK, so define "objective" and "truth" such that "o...OK, so define "objective" and "truth" such that "objective" can be used to modify "truth." Go ahead.<br /><br />I completely agree that inroads against the authority of an inerrant, infallible Scripture are to be opposed, whether they come from the Modernist camp we've been fighting for a couple hundred years now, or the self-destruction of modernism in the welter of post-modern ways of meaning.pgeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00778075334003141988noreply@blogger.com