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In his recent Simply Christian, NT Wright offers this clever retort to skeptical relativism: "Saying 'It's true for you' sounds fine and tolerant. But it only works because it's twisting the word 'true' to mean, not 'a true revelation of the way things are in the real world' but 'something that is genuinely happening inside you.' In fact, saying 'It's true for you' in this sense is more or less equivalent to saying 'It's not true for you, because the 'it' in question - the spiritual sense or awareness or experience - is conveying, very powerfully, a message (that there is a loving God) which the challenger is reducing to something else (that you are having strong feelings which you misinterpret in that sense)."
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 09:10 PM
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