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Who Is Truth
Reframing Our Questions for a Richer Faith
by Jeffrey L. Thayne and Edwin E. Gantt
For millennia, philosophers have asked what is truth — a question that already assumes truth is a thing. Jesus Christ said something stranger: I am the truth. Most readers take that as poetry.
This book takes it literally, and follows where it leads. If truth is a person rather than a set of ideas, then faith, authority, sin, and the Atonement all look different than we have been taught to see them.
In a hurry? Every question in the book, reframed — the argument in miniature, on one page. Or read theanswers to the hardest objections, theglossary, or whatothers have written about it.
Contents
Before we begin
Chapters
- 1What if truth is a person?21 min
- 2The ancient roots of person-truth23 min
- 3Faith in ideas, or faithfulness to a Person?15 min
- 4Knowing God vs. believing ideas about Him16 min
- 5Person-truth does not give us control19 min
- 6Knowing person-truth through covenant9 min
- 7Our on-and-off relationship with person-truth16 min
- 8What it means to be an authority on truth19 min
- 9The archnemesis of person-truth11 min
- 10What is sin, if truth is a person?13 min
- 11A fixed self or a dynamic self?16 min
- 12Rethinking the Atonement of Christ11 min
- 13Person-truth in a world of science and reason11 min
- 14Practicing a relational faith16 min
After