Metaphysically, pagan notions of reality must be replaced with the Creator-creature distinction. Epistemologically and ethically, the subjective authority of the fallen finite mind must be replaced with the divine authority of the Word of God. So it turns out that pluralism is confronted with the age-old exclusivism from Abraham’s day. Christian convert after convert experiences his own micro-exodus from a society always facing Hobbesian totalitarianism to a community that knows liberty. Thus excluding
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