that culture was inevitable. The postliberal repudiates these attempts to ground interpretation in a universally accessible ground as an ahistorical quest. A totally neutral and objective point of view does not exist. The language and tradition in which we live shape our experience and understanding of even the most basic components of reality. Even science, with its so-called objective standpoint, is not a purely rational, ahistorical enterprise. It involves a specific social and communal world