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All Truth Is God's Truth
Title | All Truth Is God's Truth |
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Date | 2024-12-22 14:12:40 |
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This book is a philosophical guided tour through the reasons why Christians, particularly evangelical Christians, need to figure out that there is more to our faith than evangelism and quiet time. The massive responsibility of seeing the world, life, humanity, history and all the disciplines thereby suggested in light of God calls for a more generalized approach to seeing and communicating the gospel. We cannot become so engrossed in the practical that we lose sight of the transcendent. God Himself expresses concern for many things the evangelical church feels comfortable ignoring.Christian reason must become more disciplined and more informed, not just in its own narrow specialty but in the world at large. We must become more well-read and conversent in philosophies with which we may somewhat disagree, looking not for points of criticism but for points of commonality. Holmes' thesis that all truth is God's truth suggests that critiquing humanist thought is about more than debunking. It is about understanding and perhaps even agreeing. More than that, it is about analyzing and assessing, looking for errors, not in the interest of silencing those in error, but in the interest of finding their contribution to the whole body of understanding truth and therefore understanding Christ.It goes against the evangelical grain to admit that somebody whose agenda differs from theirs may have a point. But that is exactly what Holmes is calling for, along side an increased integrity in the Church which contributes significantly to human thought.