The church is, one might say, inherently comic, for it makes divine and universal claims in very human and particular ways — a discrepancy evident to anyone who cares to look. (religion-online.org)
True, we are all deeply embedded in particular contexts, and this contextual reality makes the warranting of universal claims exceedingly difficult. (religion-online.org)
But if a philosophical justification is made for «postliberal» Christianity on the ground of historical relativism, are its proponents ready to accept the implications of that paradoxically universal claim — that is, that there are no ways to grade the better or worse, if not the truth or falsity, of historically relative claims? (religion-online.org)