Berendes creates work that simultaneously suggests both simplicity and complexity — it is her integration of both the fine and applied arts that highlights the contradictions, tensions and ultimate validity of this division by bringing them both to the fore. (s1artspace.org)
She does not tell us whether she has come to identify fully with this version of Christianity, but she makes clear that in this book she writes as a social scientist who in this role can not make statements about the ultimate validity of the Evangelical experience of God. (firstthings.com)
But since subjective morality has no ultimate validity except insofar as chosen by the «believer», it has no real meaning except on a personal and chosen level. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)