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Title: The Truth About Tolerance: Pluralism, Diversity, and the Culture Wars By: Brad Stetson, Joseph G. Conti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 212 Vendor: IVP Academic Publication Date: 2005 | Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches) Weight: 11 ounces ISBN: 0830827870 ISBN-13: 9780830827879 Stock No: WW827870 |
We all want to be tolerant. No one wants to be intolerant. But does that mean we have to accept all truth claims as true? Does this virtue rule out having any strongly held moral convictions? In this book Brad Stetson and Joseph G. Conti explore the use and misuse of this important value in academic circles and popular media. They note that the pursuit of truth and the pursuit of tolerance are often taken to be mutually exclusive, and it ends with truth having to give way to tolerance. Stetson and Conti argue just the opposite: that true tolerance requires the pursuit of truth. In the end they demonstrate that Christian conviction about religious truth provides the only secure basis for a tolerant society which promotes truth seeking. Christians can contribute to civil debate without compromising their moral and spiritual convictions.
Joseph G. Conti (Ph.D., social ethics, University of Southern California) is a writer and lectures in the comparative religion department at California State University--Fullerton.
Brad Stetson (Ph.D., social ethics, University of Southern California) is a writer and teaches at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California.
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