Why does truth matter when politicians so easily sidestep it and intellectuals scorn it as irrelevant? Why be concerned over an abstract idea like truth when something that isn't true―for example, a report of Iraq's attempting to buy materials for nuclear weapons―gets the desired result: the invasion of Iraq? In this engaging and spirited book, Michael Lynch argues that truth does matter, i…
Only if, with regard to the diversity of religions, there are questions about truth and falsehood do we have a problem about the pluralism of religions and the unity of truth. That problem is not concerned with preserving religious liberty, freedom of worship, and the toleration, in a particular society or in the world, of a diversity of religious institutions, communities, practices, and beli…