Submissive Truth Claims

"It is indeed true that Christian theology cannot be done properly without facing the questions raised by modern science and by other world religions. But two things are here simply taken for granted, without argument: first, that the essence of Christianity is the same as that of the other world religions, and second, that all the religions have to submit their truth-claims to the discipline of the scientific method. At this point we are all required to be orthodox with respect to the plausibility structure that is called the modern scientific method. We are not allowed to be heretics."


Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks, p. 18