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Who's afraid of relativism?: community, contingency, and creaturehood

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Contents 1. It Depends: Creation, Contingency, and the Specter of Relativism 2. Community as Context: Wittgenstein on Meaning as Use 3. Who's Afraid of Contingency? Owning Up to Our Creaturehood with Rorty 4. Reasons to Believe: Making Faith Explicit after Brandom 5. The (Inferential) Nature of Doctrine: Postliberalism as Christian Pragmatism Epilogue: How to be a Conservative Relativist Index

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Contents 1. It Depends: Creation, Contingency, and the Specter of Relativism 2. Community as Context: Wittgenstein on Meaning as Use 3. Who's Afraid of Contingency? Owning Up to Our Creaturehood with Rorty 4. Reasons to Believe: Making Faith Explicit after Brandom 5. The (Inferential) Nature of Doctrine: Postliberalism as Christian Pragmatism Epilogue: How to be a Conservative Relativist Index

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Contents 1. It Depends: Creation, Contingency, and the Specter of Relativism 2. Community as Context: Wittgenstein on Meaning as Use 3. Who's Afraid of Contingency? Owning Up to Our Creaturehood with Rorty 4. Reasons to Believe: Making Faith Explicit after Brandom 5. The (Inferential) Nature of Doctrine: Postliberalism as Christian Pragmatism Epilogue: How to be a Conservative Relativist Index

Key concepts: Relativism, Contingency, Faith, Meaning (existential), Epistemology, Doctrine, Pragmatism, Context (archaeology)

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