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The "truth" is in here
and One Way or Many
Kwame Anthony Appiah (W.W. Norton & Company: Feb 17, 2007), 224 pages.
AAppiah, a Princeton philosophy professor, articulates a precise yet flexible ethical manifesto for a world characterized by heretofore unthinkable interconnection but riven by escalating fractiousness. Drawing on his Ghanaian roots and on examples from philosophy and literature, he attempts to steer a course between the extremes of liberal universalism, with its tendency to impose our values on others, and cultural relativism, with its implicit conviction that gulfs in understanding cannot be bridged. Cosmopolitanism, in Appiah’s formulation, balances our “obligations to others” with the "value not just of human life but of particular human lives" — what he calls “universality plus difference.” Appiah remains skeptical of simple maxims for ethical behavior — like the Golden Rule, whose failings as a moral precept he swiftly demonstrates — and argues that cosmopolitanism is the name not "of the solution but of the challenge." ~ The New Yorker
The Soul of Science (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1994), p. 154-5.
Throughout the academic world, non-Euclidean geometry was invoked to
support a positivistic, anti-metaphysical temper of thought. A culture
was assumed to be analogous to a geometry. Both were built on a few
postulates chosen from an indefinite number of possibilities; both
consisted of internally consistent, interrelated wholes; and both were
immune to judgements about their truth or falsity in any ultimate
sense. Just as different geometries could all be logically valid, it
was argued, so any number of different cultural and ethical systems
could all be logically valid. Thus non-Euclideanism became a metaphor
for the rejection of all traditional deductive systems — particularly
the moral and religious tradition of Christianity. This is not to say
that non-Euclideanism is intrinsically anti-Christian or
anti-religious. Yet it was invoked as a symbol to deny that
Christianity has any claim to a superior or exclusive truth.
Ravi Zacharias (Thomas Nelson : February 2002), 208 pages.
In a world with so many religions—why Jesus? In his most important work to date, apologetics scholar and popular speaker Ravi Zacharias shows how the blueprint for life and death itself is found in a true understanding of Jesus. With a simple yet penetrating style, Zacharias uses rich illustrations to celebrate the power of Jesus Christ to transform lives.Jesus Among Other Gods contrasts the truth of Jesus with founders of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, strengthening believers and compelling them to share their faith with our post-modern world.