Building a Path to Truth

Dr. Clark’s, Building a Path to Truth is the necessary roadmap to the current, cultural epistemology. For those with a Christian worldview, it is axiomatic that “truth is not relative”, but there’s a difference between modern relativism and postmodern skepticism, and knowing the distinction is critical to addressing sincere doubts about truth.

Dr. Clark helpfully distinguishes truth, knowledge, justification, power, and authority, and locates the sources of skepticism, as well as the source of truth and knowledge.

Years ago, some Christian friends and I visited the nine-sided Bahá’í temple in Wilmette, Illinois. The number nine, the highest single-digit number, symbolizes wholeness and unity. According to Bahá’í, the world’s religions are all in some sense true, and yet Bahá’í summarizes and completes them all. So Bahá’í uses a nine-pointed star to symbolize its faith, and the architecture of its temple reflects the idea that Bahá’í fulfills the truth in all religions.

By affirming all the world’s religions, Bahá’í reflects the sensibilities of our day—that all the religions are roughly equivalent. But what about the fact that religious doctrines contradict? Christians say Jesus is divine, but Muslims and Jews say not. Muslims, Jews, and Christians believe in one God, but some Hindus believe in many gods and some Buddhists believe in none.