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This book, which began as a doctoral thesis at Heythrop College, aims to illustrate that truth matters, so that “the search for truth and human flourishing are ultimately coincident” (ix) and that faith and science should not be opposed. Munchin, an Anglican parish priest, chose the work of Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994), a philosopher of science whose philosophy ranged from a kind of realism to a type of relativism. Simply expressed, the main theme of his developed “epistemological anarchism” (21) is that because realism has been hijacked so often by political and social forces to the detriment of human flourishing, we must use as our criterion of truth the ethical standard of whatever it is that leads to human flourishing. This led Feyerabend to praise “liberation theology,” which elevated praxis over theory and echoed his “own overarching pragmatism” (170). But Munchin rightly believes that this is merely a “strategy of avoidance” since Feyerabend does not offer a sustained rational argument in favor of his epistemology but rather elicits “our liberal humanitarian sympathies as cover” in order to support “a suspect epistemological relativism” (150–151). Thomas F. Torrance (1913–2007), a Professor of Christian Dogmatics at the University of Edinburgh, wrote extensively
Journal of Reformed Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2014
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