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- We all want to be tolerant.No one wants to be intolerant.
- About the Author: Joseph G. Conti (Ph.D., social ethics, University of Southern California) is a writer and lectures in the comparative religion department at California State University--Fullerton.
- 207 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christian Life
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Brad Stetson and Joseph G. Conti explore the use and misuse of the value of tolerance in academic circles and popular media, demonstrating that Christian conviction about religious truth provides the only secure basis for a tolerant society which promotes truth seeking.
Book Synopsis
We all want to be tolerant.No one wants to be intolerant. But does that mean we have to accept all truth claims as true? Does this virtue rule out having any strongly held moral convictions?In this book Brad Stetson and Joseph G. Conti explore the use and misuse of this important value in academic circles and popular media. They note that the pursuit of truth and the pursuit of tolerance are often taken to be mutually exclusive, and it ends with truth having to give way to tolerance. Stetson and Conti argue just the opposite: that true tolerance requires the pursuit of truth. In the end they demonstrate that Christian conviction about religious truth provides the only secure basis for a tolerant society which promotes truth seeking. Christians can contribute to civil debate without compromising their moral and spiritual convictions.
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"Stetson and Conti address, with rigor and clarity, the use and misuse of the term tolerance in our popular culture. Too often what goes by the name tolerance is just another dogma with a smiley face. Stetson and Conti take the mask off, and enlighten us in the process."
--Francis J. Beckwith, Associate Professor, and Associate Director of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor UniversityThe authors sound a call for their readers to engage in genuine tolerance, a tolerance that more accurately reflects the ideals of Jesus Christ. If the reader genuinely cares about other people, this is a must read.
--Ronald Gary Belsterling, The Journal of Youth Ministry, Fall 2008About the Author
Joseph G. Conti (Ph.D., social ethics, University of Southern California) is a writer and lectures in the comparative religion department at California State University--Fullerton.
Brad Stetson (Ph.D., social ethics, University of Southern California) is a writer and teaches at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California.
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