Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World
How can Christians defend truth and clarity to a world that rejects both?
Increasingly, Western culture embraces confusion as a virtue and decries certainty as a sin. Those who are confused about sexuality and identity are viewed as heroes. Those who are confused about morality are progressive pioneers. Those who are confused about spirituality are praised as tolerant.
Conversely, those who express certainty about any of these issues are seen as bigoted, oppressive, arrogant, or intolerant. This cultural phenomenon led the compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary to name "post-truth" their word of the year in 2016. It's popularity and relevance has only increased since then.
By accurately describing the Culture of Confusion and how it has affected our society, author Abdu Murray seeks to awaken Westerners to the plight we find ourselves in. He also challenges Christians to consider how they have played a part in fostering the Culture of Confusion through bad arguments, unwise labeling, and emotional attacks.
Ultimately, Saving Truth provides arguments from a Christian perspective for the foundations of truth and how those foundations impart clarity to the biggest topics of human existence:
- Freedom.
- Human dignity.
- Sexuality, Gender, and Identity.
- Science and Faith.
- Religious pluralism and Morality.
For those enmeshed in the culture of confusion, Saving Truth offers a way to untangle oneself and find hope in the clarity that Christ offers.
Top Highlights
“When autonomy robs us of our reason, our accountability, and our value for individuals, we become desperate for deliverance from the chaos. But with our reason atrophied and our value for each other diminished, it will be easy for a charismatic and powerful individual, or perhaps a group of them, to start undermining some people’s freedoms to serve other people’s autonomy. That may sound farfetched, but it is already happening in our day.” (source)
“to tempt Adam and Eve away from the communion with God we were created for and toward autonomy apart from God. Satan” (source)
“the state will take away your freedom if you fail to bow to someone else’s autonomy.” (source)
“Romantic and sexual desires don’t define us. Nor does sexual attraction. It is God who defines us. We only find that identity through repentance. King David found his identity when he repented of his adultery. A woman may find her identity when she repents of viewing the ‘perfect romance’ as life’s ultimate goal. A gay man or woman may find his or her identity when they repent for making their sexual orientation their defining characteristic. I found my identity when I repented of so many broken thoughts, including making religious piety my identity.” (source)
“History’s most influential person expressly binds freedom to the limits of truth. ‘You will know the truth,’ Jesus says, ‘and the truth will set you free’ (John 8:32). Jesus repudiates the post-truth Culture of Confusion’s mindset that refuses to tether freedom to truth.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World
- Author: Murray, Abdu
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication Date: 2018
- ISBN: 9780310562054
