I will be intrigued to read John's book - he's currently here giving some talks at a conference on missional theology. The title and the phrasing can be troubling: what does plurality of truth look like? Does it simply mean an infinite open-endedness to every question? Part of John's starting point is the evident fact of the "plurality" of Christian practice.
To conjure up the past, has true diversity more to do with what St Augustine was trying to get at in book 12 of the Confessions? Augustine argued that there could be many "true" interpretations of the same biblical text. But for Augustine, this did not mean that every interpretation was true. What places the limit on the variety (or plurality) of "truths"? Better yet, the best model for plurality/diversity is really the Trinity itself...
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