At a time when truth is seen increasingly as a dirty word, there seem to be no firm landmarks that can hold sure and unchanged in a sea of relativity. Many deny the validity of any search for truth while others are convinced thay have it and seek to impose it on others. This book charts a course between these opposing movements of relativism and religious fundamentalism, drawing on such thinkers as Aristotle, Plato, Wittgenstein, Marx, Freud, Nietzche and Kant, as well as on a broad spectrum of religious beliefs. It clearly argues for the case of truth and the need to search, challenging us to think about issues that go to the very heart of who we are as human beings and what sort of lives we should live.

PETER VARDY is Vice-Principal of Heythrop College, University of London, and is one of the best known philosophers of religion in Britain and Australia. His Puzzle series of books published by Harper Collins have been through many printings and are available in many languages. He is the series editor of the Fount Christian Thinkers Series, was theological advisor to the recent BBC series on Sex and Religion, and is advisor to the series on Evil now being filmed for Channel 4.