the truth he makes plain to us. He cares that we understand the consequences of turning a blind eye to his standards of righteous thought and behavior. Relativism: the belief that truth, knowledge, and morality are relative to the individual, society, and historical context. The study of what knowledge is, how we know, and how our knowledge relates to what is real is called epistemology (episteme is Greek for “knowledge”).11 What we believe about knowledge itself serves as a kind of greenhouse