Intellectually and politically, Christianity is a stability. We have a foundation.
But Christianity also has a high tolerance for instability, uncertainty, imperfection, incompletion. The reason is that our foundation is that our foundation is not below us, set in the past; rather, our foundation is above us, in a heavenly city, and it is future, eschatological.
Christians can embrace all the relativities and penultimacies of history without becoming relativists or skeptics – not because we have a certitude behind us but because we are confident that we have certitude ahead of us.
These are the lines along which a Christian epistemology, hermeneutics, and politics should be developed. These are the lines for developing an epistemology, hermeneutics, and politics of faith.
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