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A Reply to Ronald Enroth's Comment on "Teaching Students Who Already Know the Truth"

David McKenzie, Ph.D.

Berry College

I appreciate Professor Enroth's careful reading of and provocative response to my article on fundamentalism in the classroom. As I understand it, he has two basic objections to what I have written: one, that my critique is on the side of relativism and thus flies in the face of the recent academic concern for the consequences of such a position; and two, that I have generalized throughout my article in such a way as to overlook fundamentalists who are genuinely intellectual in their faith and fine academicians to boot. The first of these objections misses the point and is by and large irrelevant, as I shall attempt to show. The second is quite to the point and partly correct, though I shall insist in some important respects, incorrect.

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