The assignment was simple. Five MBC professors were asked to write a short essay on tolerance. No additional specifics were provided in hopes of receiving five entirely different approaches to the topic. They each have interest in both content and perspective and are provided here online to encourage a positive dialogue. Read each of them and comment here if you wish.
All submissions are subject to publication and editing.
John Jae-Nam Han, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Historically, secular literary works have not elicited much excitement from evangelical Christians. Instead, they have been frequent targets of condemnation and suppression. The concept of tolerance is confusing to many Christians. This is partially because the term has varied meanings in contemporary culture. Some understand tolerance as a word similar to relativism, that no view of the truth is any better than the other.