Chris Chrisman Goes to College: and faces the Challenges of Relativism, Individualism and Pluralism
Chris Chrisman, a young Christian, goes to college only to have his world turned upside down. On campus he finds the challenges to his faith — both intellectual and personal — almost more than he can bear. Then he meets Bill Seipel and Bob Wong. Together, the three young men, two of them Christians and the other a self-styled atheist, forge a common bond in the quest for truth. In the process they confront some of the dominant ideologies of the secular university.Weaving the story of Chris's first year on campus with separate expository chapters on such forces as individualism, pluralism, relativism and privitization, James Sire offers a helpful apologetic for those who are searching for truth in a postmodern world. He identifies no fewer than six types of relativism, from "All religions boil down to the same thing" and "It's true for you; it's not true for me" to "God does not exist; naturalism is true." Then in down-to-earth language Sire helps readers to think through these and other complex issues.

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Chris Chrisman Goes to College: and faces the Challenges of Relativism, Individualism and Pluralism
Chris Chrisman, a young Christian, goes to college only to have his world turned upside down. On campus he finds the challenges to his faith — both intellectual and personal — almost more than he can bear. Then he meets Bill Seipel and Bob Wong. Together, the three young men, two of them Christians and the other a self-styled atheist, forge a common bond in the quest for truth. In the process they confront some of the dominant ideologies of the secular university.Weaving the story of Chris's first year on campus with separate expository chapters on such forces as individualism, pluralism, relativism and privitization, James Sire offers a helpful apologetic for those who are searching for truth in a postmodern world. He identifies no fewer than six types of relativism, from "All religions boil down to the same thing" and "It's true for you; it's not true for me" to "God does not exist; naturalism is true." Then in down-to-earth language Sire helps readers to think through these and other complex issues.

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Chris Chrisman Goes to College: and faces the Challenges of Relativism, Individualism and Pluralism

Chris Chrisman Goes to College: and faces the Challenges of Relativism, Individualism and Pluralism

by James W. Sire
Chris Chrisman Goes to College: and faces the Challenges of Relativism, Individualism and Pluralism

Chris Chrisman Goes to College: and faces the Challenges of Relativism, Individualism and Pluralism

by James W. Sire

Overview

Chris Chrisman, a young Christian, goes to college only to have his world turned upside down. On campus he finds the challenges to his faith — both intellectual and personal — almost more than he can bear. Then he meets Bill Seipel and Bob Wong. Together, the three young men, two of them Christians and the other a self-styled atheist, forge a common bond in the quest for truth. In the process they confront some of the dominant ideologies of the secular university.Weaving the story of Chris's first year on campus with separate expository chapters on such forces as individualism, pluralism, relativism and privitization, James Sire offers a helpful apologetic for those who are searching for truth in a postmodern world. He identifies no fewer than six types of relativism, from "All religions boil down to the same thing" and "It's true for you; it's not true for me" to "God does not exist; naturalism is true." Then in down-to-earth language Sire helps readers to think through these and other complex issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780830816569
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 08/16/1993
Pages: 155
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

James W. Sire (PhD, University of Missouri), formerly a senior editor at InterVarsity Press, is an active speaker and writer. He has taught English, philosophy, theology, and short courses at many universities and seminaries. He continues to be a frequent guest lecturer in the United States and Europe. His InterVarsity Press books and Bible studies include The Universe Next Door (a worldviews textbook), Scripture Twisting, Discipleship of the Mind, Chris Chrisman Goes to College, Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All?, Habits of the Mind, Naming the Elephant, Learning to Pray Through the Psalms, Why Good Arguments Often Fail and A Little Primer on Humble Apologetics.

Table of Contents

Acknwledgments
1. Chris Chrisman Goes to State
2. The Vortex of Modernity
3. Bob Wong Goes to State
4. Chris Chrisman Becomes a Student
5. Truth: A Mobile Army of Metaphors
6. Closing the Mind So Open That Everything Falls Out
7. Three's a Company
8. One's Enough
9. Four's a Community
10. Community amid Chaos
11. Bob Wong's Search for Jesus
12. In the Spring a Young Man's Fancy
13. The Public Face of Christian Faith
14. The Thinker Prays
Afterword
Notes

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