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Frame discusses language as a tool for theology and related subtopics.
— May 20, 2026 11:33AM
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The Normative Justification of Knowledge
"Rationalism recognizes a need for criteria, or standards; empiricism a need for objective, publicly knowable facts; and subjectivism a need for our beliefs to meet our own internal criteria. A Christian epistemology will recognize all of those concerns but will differ from the rationalist, empiricist, and subjectivist schools of thought in important ways."
— May 06, 2026 12:14PM
"Rationalism recognizes a need for criteria, or standards; empiricism a need for objective, publicly knowable facts; and subjectivism a need for our beliefs to meet our own internal criteria. A Christian epistemology will recognize all of those concerns but will differ from the rationalist, empiricist, and subjectivist schools of thought in important ways."
Andrew Meredith
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Frame critiques rationalism, empiricism, and subjectivism, which are idolatries of the mind, the world, and the self, respectively.
Subjectivism does not work because one must believe in some kind of objective truth to function in life, including teaching subjectivism itself. The other two "objective" tendencies inevitably fall into hopeless subjectivism when trying to bridge the gap between "the one and the many."
— May 05, 2026 10:27AM
Subjectivism does not work because one must believe in some kind of objective truth to function in life, including teaching subjectivism itself. The other two "objective" tendencies inevitably fall into hopeless subjectivism when trying to bridge the gap between "the one and the many."
Andrew Meredith
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"In making ethical decisions, we meet again the factors we have been discussing-the law, the situation, the self. Every ethical decision involves the application of a law (norm, principle) to a situation by a person (self)."
— May 04, 2026 01:40PM
Andrew Meredith
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"The non-Christian, of course, can accept an absolute only if that absolute is impersonal and therefore makes no demands and has no power to bless or curse. There are personal gods in paganism, but none of them is absolute; there are absolutes in paganism, but none is personal. Only in Christianity (and in other religions influenced by the Bible) is there such a concept as a "personal absolute.""
— Apr 29, 2026 01:39PM
Because "Scripture itself contains intentional vagueness, we must beware of trying too hard to eliminate vagueness from theology. We do not want to be less precise than Scripture is, but (and this point ought to be better appreciated in orthodox circles) we don't want to be more precise than Scripture, either. I'm afraid that theologians sometimes seek maximum precision in theology, contrary to the intent of Scripture itself. Thus they multiply technical terms far beyond their usefulness, a practice that has occurred in much writing on the order of the decrees, trichotomy, and so forth."