Confident that universal truths could be identified and agreed upon by rational persons everywhere, modernity threw off external authorities such as religious dogma and insisted on the freedom of the individual to discover truth through his or her own reason. We now live in the twilight of the modern world, when the pluralistic character of our societies demands that we recognize many competing claims to truth. Yhis new, "postmodern" situations in which we find ourselves is an especially difficult challenge to evangelical theology, wich defends historic Christian truth claims as universal, and Christian Scriptures as uniquely authoritative for everyone.
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