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    Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air

    Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air

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    by Francis J. Beckwith, Gregory Koukl


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      ISBN-13: 9781585582099
    • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
    • Publication date: 10/01/1998
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 190
    • Sales rank: 303,013
    • File size: 962 KB

    Francis J. Beckwith is associate director of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, and associate professor of Church-State Studies, Baylor University, where he is also associate editor of the Journal of Church & State. He currently serves as a member of Princeton's James Madison Program Council on Moral and Political Thought. He has written several books including the award-winning Politically Correct Death. His articles have been published in numerous journals across a diversity of disciplines. Find out more at francisbeckwith.com
    Francis J. Beckwith (PhD, Fordham University; MJS, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis) is professor of philosophy and church-state studies, and fellow and faculty associate in the Institute for the Studies of Religion, at Baylor University. In 2008-09, he will serve on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame as the Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Culture. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case against Abortion Choice and To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview.

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction: Who Are You to Judge?
    Part 1: Understanding Relativism
    1 The Death of Truth
    2 What Is Moral Relativism?
    3 Three Kinds of Relativism
    Part 2: Critiquing Relativism
    4 Culture as Morality
    5 Culture Defining Morality
    6 Moral Common Sense
    7 Relativism's Seven Fatal Flaws
    Part 3: Relativism and Education
    8 Values Clarification
    9 Relativism's Offspring--Political Correctness and Multiculturalism
    10 On the Road to Barbarism
    Part 4: Relativism and Public Policy
    11 Relativism and the Law
    12 Relativism and the Meaning of Marriage
    13 Relativism and the Meaning of Life
    Part 5: Responding to Relativism
    14 Tactics to Refute Relativism
    15 Monkey Morality
    16 Why Morality?
    Conclusion
    Notes
    Index

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    Relativism offers a critique of moral relativism and suggests ways Christians can defend their moral beliefs. The authors survey the rising tide of relativism in recent decades, explore its inherent inconsistencies, suggest specific approaches that can be used in the course of dialogue, and consider its everyday implications. (48)

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