Truth is Like a Skeleton

‘Truth! Truth! You can’t handle the truth!’ [1] You remember the film A Few Good Men, where Tom Cruise is passionately demanding that Jack Nicholson tell the truth, and back comes the classic line. ‘You can’t handle the truth.’ In our current social climate where critical thinking is part of our education system, very much a result of the Post Structuralist movement of the mid-twentieth Century, truth as a concept has become abstract and experiential, and to a large degree, unknowable. The deconstruction of past ideals and philosophies has left us with a very shaky foundation. In some cases, no foundation. Conservative Christians, on the whole, reject the idea that Christian doctrine and theology needs to be deconstructed, and hold fast to ideals that have been...