Mere Christianity in a Pluralist World (Part 2)

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[Stand Firm] 19 May 2008--Subsequently, this radically subjective turn, this move from theology—the study of God—to theological anthropology—the investigation of our own perceptions about God—began to effect and infect the mainline protestant bodies in the west. The Anglican bodies including the Episcopal Church in the United States were no exception. The classic Christian position, that God reveals himself and his law to humanity generally in nature and specially in Holy Scripture and the Church and that this revelation was knowable in an objective sense, gradually became, in many denominations, especially the mainline denominations whose leading theologians and clergy were heavily influenced by Schleiermacher, a minority position. So, along with western culture, the western church began to slowly succumb to epistemological doubt, to uncertainty, and as she did, she began to adopt a pluralist paradigm if we cannot know truth with certainty we cannot assert it with certainty.