FIRST! Again

Western nations now face a growing diversity in the religious landscape. Along with this ethnic and religious mix comes a mindset of tolerance to other faiths that has been identified as “religious pluralism”. Religious pluralism is not just the presence of a multiplicity of religions. Rather it has been defined by Lesslie Newbigin as "the belief that differences between religions are not a matter of truth and falsehood, but of different perceptions of the one truth” What is happening in this context, then, is that relativism reigns supreme. Tolerance of other religious beliefs is considered a virtue; clinging to the concept of absolute truth in matters of ultimate questions is deemed an unpardonable sin. Such an ambivalent attitude has crept into the church too. Read the rest of this entry »