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Truth on the Rocks

Review of a clash between artist Tracey Emin and columnist Melanie Phillips on the facts about marriage and cohabitation on BBC TV's Question Time, and the subsequent article by Melanie Phillips titled 'A Nation That Lies To Itself', reflecting on the contemporary preference for falsehoods over facts. Read more...

'Tolerance: A Strange Reversal'

The meaning of tolerance has changed. In the past, it meant accepting other people even though you disagreed with their beliefs. It has now come to mean not disagreeing with anyone, and pretending that all beliefs really are equally valid. Read more...

'Only One Way?'

Are there many different ways to God, or is Jesus the only way? Read more...

'True for you but not for me'

What kind of sense does it make to say that something can be 'True for you but not for me?' Read more...

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Truth decay

Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism

Douglas Groothuis
InterVarsity Press ISBN 0-8308-2228-3
Groothuis outlines the problem of truth in postmodern thinking; he examines the Biblical view of truth, explores the challenge to theology, the place of apologetics in a postmodern world, and issues of ethics, race, gender and the arts. This book cuts through a great deal of the obscurity of much contemporary thought.

You can read 'Television: Agent of Truth Decay', an extended extract from this book, on this web site.

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Time for Truth

Time for Truth:

Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
Os Guinness, Baker Books 2000
In the western world today, belief in objective truth (which is 'true for everyone, whether or not anyone believes it') is dead. Truth is what you make it, and what's true for you need not be true for me.

But if truth is dead, all that remains is power and propaganda - a world of 'lies, hype, and spin,' as the subtitle puts it.

In this short but hard-hitting critique of postmodern thinking, Os Guinness argues that truth is alive and well, and we cannot avoid it. Truth matters, because without truth, there can be no freedom. In fact the only way to become free is to become a person of truth.

Dr Os Guinness is director of the Trinity Forum, and the author of a number of books.

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Truth: could it be true?

Truth: Could it be true?

Peter Hicks, Solway
What is truth? And how can you tell? Peter Hicks looks at different ideas about truth (including the contemporary postmodern idea that truth is completely relative - what's 'true for you' need not be 'true for me too'), and asks how we can test competing truth claims.

Peter Hicks lectures in Philosophy at London Bible College.

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No Place for Truth, by David Wells

No Place for Truth, or: Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?

David F Wells
InterVarsity Press ISBN 0-85111-163-7
David Wells, writing from an American perspective, explores the way the contemporary world has influenced the Christian faith. He particularly examines the loss of concern with theology - the truth about God, and its replacement with management techniques and communications skill.
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