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Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible is a religious masterpiece, casting a profound vision for the healing of humanity through the power of divine love, grace, and forgiveness. But the Bible also contains “dark texts” that challenge our ethical imagination. How can one book speak of loving our enemies and also speak of slaughtering Canaanites? Why does a book that preaches the equality of all people—male and female, slave...

avers that we need not prove that we are right in order to have genuine knowledge. This is why young children, who have no epistemic theories at all, can have knowledge without proving it to themselves or others.13 And second, Practical Realism does not believe that cultural traditions blind us to the truth; rather, it believes that tradition is the very way that human beings grasp the truth. Tradition is right about the world (generally speaking) because, by its nature, tradition is the product
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