Difference Between Critical Realism and Evidentialism
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Evidentialism in the Josh McDowell sense downplays the role of presuppositions.
Critical Realism does not. CR tries to say against postmodernity that we can actually know things, including Jesus rising from the dead. But against modernity and the Enlightenment it denies that we operate with a tabula rasa. It acknowledges that while we can know what a text is saying, we also bring our own cultural assumptions to the text and these will color (for good or for ill) what we are reading.
The best book on this is Jamie Smith's The Fall of Interpretation.
Amazon.com: The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic: James K. A. Smith: Books
If you can find the relevant section in New Testament and the People of God it is outlined quite clearly.
Critical Realism does not. CR tries to say against postmodernity that we can actually know things, including Jesus rising from the dead. But against modernity and the Enlightenment it denies that we operate with a tabula rasa. It acknowledges that while we can know what a text is saying, we also bring our own cultural assumptions to the text and these will color (for good or for ill) what we are reading.
The best book on this is Jamie Smith's The Fall of Interpretation.
Amazon.com: The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic: James K. A. Smith: Books
If you can find the relevant section in New Testament and the People of God it is outlined quite clearly.
Perhaps of interest; see James J. Cassidy, "Critical Realism & the Relation of Redemptive Act to Revelatory Word" in The Confessional Presbyterian 2 (2006) 79-88. Issues available for purchase at the link in my signature.
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