court case in the context of a larger narrative,10 alerts us unequivocally to the resistance that a trinitarian view of truth affords to the relativism of so much postmodernism.11 The reader of John’s Gospel knows the answer to Pilate’s question: Jesus himself is the answer. “Truth is not simply personal; for John truth is a person. Even this is too weak: truth is not just any person, but this human being in particular: Jesus of Nazareth, and among human beings only he. Knowing what truth is and
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