Knowledge as both Subjective and Objective
“What seems to have happened in our culture is a falling apart, a disconnection between the subjective and the objective poles. We have on the one hand the ideal, or shall I call it the illusion, of a kind of objectivity which is not possible, of a kind of knowledge of what we call the “facts” which involves no personal commitment, no risk of being wrong, something which we have merely to accept without question; and on the other hand a range of beliefs which are purely subjective, which are, as we say, “true for me,” are “what I feel,” but which are a matter of personal and private choice. To suggest that these latter beliefs ought to be accepted as true for all is to be guilty of the unforgivable sin-dogmatism.”
From The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin





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