Truth Decay
Subtitle: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: April 2000
Place of publication: Downers Grove, IL; Leicester, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780830822287; 9780830877553
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Theology; Religion - Theology; Doctrinal Theology (Specific Denominations); Postmodernism; Religion; Truth; Religious aspects; Christian Theology - General; General; Christianity
First sentence: A venerable old Russian proverb claims that "one word of truth outweighs the world."
Description: The concept of truth as absolute, objective and universal has undergone serious deterioration in recent years. No longer is it a goal for all to pursue. Rather postmodernism sees truth as inseparable from culture, psychology, race and gender. Ultimately, truth is what we make it to be.

What factors have accelarated this decay of truth? Why are people willing to embrace such a devalued concept? How does this new view compare and contrast with a Christian understanding?

While postmodernism contains some truthful insights (despite its attempt to dethrone truth), Douglas Groothuis sees its basic tenets as intellectually flawed and hostile to Christian views. In this spirited presentation of a solid, biblical and logical perspective, Groothuis unveils how truth has come under attack and how it can be defended in the vital areas of theology, apologetics, ethics and the arts.
Notes: A 2001 Christianity Today Award of Merit winner.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction : the problem of truth & integrity; title: Truth in jeopardy; title: From modernism to postmodernism; title: The biblical view of truth; title: The truth about truth; title: The postmodernist challenge to theology; title: Postmodernism & apologetics : dangers to avoid; title: Apologetics for postmoderns; title: Ethics without reality, postmodernist style; title: Race, gender & postmodernism; title: True beauty : the challenge to postmodernism; title: The fixed point in a postmodern world; title: Appendix : Television : agent of truth decay