Open AccessThe Significance of the Propositional Truths in Christian Faith
Author(s) -
Muriwali Yanto Matalu
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
verbum christi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2745-6668
pISSN - 2355-6374
DOI - 10.51688/vc3.1.2016.art3
Subject(s) - enlightenment , philosophy , postmodernism , faith , christian faith , epistemology , context (archaeology) , product (mathematics) , history , mathematics , geometry , archaeology
Postmodernism philosophy has made a serious impact to some Christian thinkers on how they view the truth. During many decades ago, Christian theologians had formulated and defended the Christian theology as a system of propositional truths. However, in some recent decades the truth - as propositions which are expected to become timeless truths -has been declined by some thinkers like Leslie Newbigin and Stanley Grenz. One of the primary reasons to reject propositions in theological discourse, according to them, that it is a product of the enlightenment and therefore cannot be applied in the postmodern context. Yet, this view has a significant problem and therefore the aim of this article is to elaborate the problem and to maintain the significance of the propositional truths in Christian faith.