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.
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.
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.
«To negate means to reject
the ultimate validity of the current state of affairs,» Alves writes.
Notions that include «
ultimate validity» for instance.
They ascribe to
themselves an ultimate validity.
Even now, the status of the information loss problem and
the ultimate validity of quantum theory remain... uncertain.