Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World by D Stephen Long

Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World by D Stephen Long

The choice is clear: truth, justice, freedom or lies, injustice, bondage? The good life and a just society depend on truth telling, but perhaps we are more comfortable with lies and fake news? How can we recognize the truth when everyone does "what is right in their own eyes"? When we accept and expect lies, how is civil society possible? How can we decide what is true, good, and right? If everyone has their own moral compass, is there any compass at all? This book addresses the skepticism about our capacity to know anything for sure and the inevitable consequences of moral relativism. The author says that skepticism and relativism cannot provide effective barriers against the drift by democracies into authoritarianism--characterized by the heavy use of state power to impose the culture of one kind of Me on us all.

In the past religion provided a beacon of hope and as the bedrock for our society and its laws. Now, religion is confined to the private and often silent recesses of the person. How then can we speak of God, truth, power, and justice as a society? These are some of the questions that the book takes up. Long begins by saying that truth and freedom promote human flourishing and concludes by pointing us to how we can discern and practice truth telling as private citizens and as people of faith.

Long, D. Stephen: - D. Stephen (Steve) Long is currently Professor of Systematic Theology, Dept. of Theology, Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881. Prior to the Fall of 2007, he was Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, where he also directed the Stead Center s Church and Academy program. His principal interests are in the areas of dogmatics, public theology, and radical orthodoxy. Recent publications include The Divine Economy: Theology and the Market and The Goodness of God. He also initially coordinated the booklet series in The Ekklesia Project, which published a variety of short essays focusing on a range of topics in church and society, and he is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Brazos imprint

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ISBN 13	9781945935503
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Titel	Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World
Autor	D Stephen Long
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Wesley's Foundery Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-08-26
Seitenanzahl	196
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