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Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted In Mid-Air, Francis J. Beckwith and Gregory Kokul, Baker Book House.

Excerpts of a book review by Dr Johnson from Brethrenassembly.

Conservative and Evangelical Christians have been going through an intellectual sea-saw for the last two centuries [though the term 'evangelical' is only half a century old]. During times of intense attack, they gather all the implements in the arsenal, service them, and use them with great power. Much territory is regained, there is great confidence, and then they lay down the arms without realizing that an army never takes, or should never take, rest. Only those territories have remained safe for any period of time where the warriors were ever ready for defense as well as offense. Unfortunately, this has not been the way defenders among the professing Christians have been doing it.

….The book is easy to read, and in sixteen chapters handles a good deal of topics related to Moral Relativism. The first section about Understanding Relativism gives a brief, but satisfactory non-technical introduction. This is important because Moral Relativism as a phenomenon is fuzzy in every way. Like the amoeba, you can recognize it if you know the major assertions of MR, but you cannot draw a definite shape……

….My only disappointment is the way the authors give undue prominence to men in the MR camp. A good number of pages are devoted to refuting what this person or that person says, without realizing that the battle is with issues and not individuals……..

Read And be Blessed.

Note:
I have read parts of the book and I must say that its a relief from the typical too technical or too superficial literature that abounds on the topic.