Religious Claims Are Always Total

“Religious claims are always total — all-encompassing. If Christ is not the Lord of all, then He is not the Lord at all. To claim that a particular religious dogma is not total is tantamount to the claim that it is not really religious. In short, such limitations are always a denial of the faith in principle, and they make room for another claim from another faith. This other claim is truly religious, and can be identified as such because the claim is total” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 67).