Terminology: Relativism
Relativism: The theory that denies that
humans can possess any objective, universally meaningful knowledge, that there
are any ultimate and unchanging metaphysical realities (God, persons, space,
time, natural laws) or that there are any moral absolutes. Hence meaning and
truth are relative to each culture and historical period or to each person,
situation, relationship and outcome.1. Stanley J. Grenz, David Guretzki & Cherith Fee
Nordling, Pocket Dictionary of
Theological Terms (Downers
Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), p. 101.
