The Truth About Tolerance | Brad Stetson & Joseph Conti

Brad Stetson & Joseph G. Conti. The Truth About Tolerance: Pluralism, Diversity, and the Culture Wars. IVP, 2005. 207 pp.

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.

Authors:

• Brad Stetson: IVP | Wikipedia

• Joseph Conti: IVP

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Excerpts: TOC | Preface | Ch. 5 | pp. 15-20 | Browse in Amazon

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Professors

• Fred Sanders at The Scriptorium (11/06) Review

Laymen/Unknown

• Bill Muehlenberg at Culture Watch (05/06) Review
• Eric Hall at New Oxford Review (12/05) Review
• Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds (07/05) Review
• Tony Wauchope at Reasonable Ruminations (07/05) Review

Secular

• Alan Bock at Orange County Register (07/06) Review

Extras:

• IVP interview with Brad Stetson

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