In critiquing D. A. Carson’s Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church, James K. A. Smith makes a wonderful point. Smith says that Carson interprets the mentionings of “truth” and “knowledge” in the Bible as clear evidence that the Bible “also advocates the modern epistemological notion of objectivity.” Smith then goes on to argue that the Scriptures “give us good reasons to reject the very notion of objectivity, while at the same time affirming the reality of truth and knowledge.” In other words, Smith is arguing that on theological and philosophical grounds that the presumed connection that Carson makes between “truth” and “knowledge” in the Bible and in the present just doesn’t hold up.
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