In seeking to commend the Christian faith as public truth, we have to consider how it is to be communicated in ways that can be effective in the pluralist culture of which we are a part. A missionary going from his native culture to communicate the gospel to people living in another culture has to steer a path between two opposite dangers. By asserting the radical newness of the Good News he may fail to communicate at all; his message remains incomprehensible. Or, in the effort to be understood,