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What Happens When We Adopt Relativism?

What Happens When We Adopt Relativism?

Last updated on: March 8, 2024 at 9:37 am by Anthony Costello

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What Happens When We Adopt Relativism? 2024-03-08T09:37:48-08:00 Anthony Costello

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In this episode of the Apologetics.com radio show, Dr. Harry Edwards, Lenny Esposito (vice-president of The Kirkwood Center) and I (Anthony) discussed the problem with adopting an attitude of worldview relativism in our culture. This episode was motivated by the comments and controversy surrounding Dr. Claudine Gay, former president of Harvard University. Can a culture survive without any sense of a transcendent, universal and culturally irrelevant code of conduct? Or are all truth claims relative to persons and cultures, and, if so, are all equally valid?

In this episode we tackle:

The controversy over Claudine Gay’s comments on the October 7th attacks on Israel
Issues concerning worldview relativism
Are all claims to truth “power claims?”
If elite universities really hold to “DEI” then why are they so demagogic about who speaks on their campuses?
Is knowledge about truth or about power?
Can knowledge by bought and sold?

Life is a mystery

Is Truth Relative to the Individual?

From the episode description:

“The October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas has shed a light on what it means to tell the truth. Leaders, including presidents of elite universities across America have had to come to the painful realization that not stating what a thing is brings disastrous consequences, i.e. antisemitism, violence, redefinition of truth, etc.Listen as Dr. Harry Edwards, Tony Costello, and Lenny Esposito discuss what happens when a society embraces relativism.”

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About Anthony Costello

Anthony Costello is a theologian and author. He has a BA in German from the University of Notre Dame, an MA in Christian Apologetics, and MA in Theology from Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, where he was awarded the 2018 Baker Book Award for Excellence in Theology. He has published in journals such as Luther Rice Journal of Christian Studies, the Journal of Christian Legal Thought and the Journal of Christian Higher Education. He co-authored two chapters in Josh and Sean McDowell's Evidence That Demands a Verdict (2016), and has published apologetics' resources for Ratio Christi Ministries and in magazines such as Touchstone. He has made online contributions to The Christian Post and Patheos. Anthony is a US Army Veteran, former 82D Airborne paratrooper and OEF veteran. Currently, he is the president of The Kirkwood Center for Theology and Ethics (kirkwoodcenter.org), a ministry dedicated to helping the local church navigate culture, and is the host of the Theology and Ethics Podcast of the Kirkwood Center. You can read more about the author here.

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