Theology and Church, Spiritual FormationSeptember 25, 2008 7:40 am
To Know Truth Requires Character
When I was preparing my sermon on the resurrected Jesus meeting the disciples and sending them out in John, I reread some of Miroslav Volf’s amazing book, Exclusion and Embrace. The following quotation has been swimming in my head since:
The ability to know the truth is not just a matter of what your mind does—whether it adjusts itself adequately to reality or thinks coherently—but is also a matter of what your character is. (269)


Volf is reflecting of a philosophical trend known as virtue epistemology. An interesting (and long) article on virtue epistemology can be found here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-virtue/.
Comment by Timbo — September 25, 2008 @ 10:35 am
oh shoot! God burn!
I like that quote.
Comment by Eric Jessen — September 26, 2008 @ 6:46 am