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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