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Evangelical  critics  of "liberalism"  allege  that its hallmark was-and 
isand is-Ita a cognitive relativism."  By making experience  the  one  and only primal 
(noetic) source of theology, liberalism condemned theology to be like all other 
human efforts to know and to understand. It thereby became simply one 
more part of "the human quest for  understanding, ... which is one 
undertaken from  within the flux  of human experience  employing the  tools 
available  to human experimenters"  and never yielding  "any certainty beyond 
that of an interim report offered from within the fallabilities of the fragile, 
human psyche." In thus  becoming "relative  and fallible,"  like  all  other 
human knowledge, theology becomes  quite different from  "the kind of 
knowledge given by revelation"  (David Wells:  179,  174). 
Evangelical  critics  of "liberalism"  allege  that its hallmark was-and is-a "cognitive relativism."  By making experience the one and only primal (noetic) source of theology, liberalism condemned theology to be like all other human efforts to know and to understand. It thereby became simply one more part of "the human quest for understanding, ... which is one undertaken from within the flux  of of human experience employing  employing the tools available  tools available to human experimenters"  and never yielding  "any certainty beyond that of an interim report offered from within the fallabilities of the fragile, human psyche." In thus  becoming "relative and  and fallible,"  like  all  other human knowledge, theology becomes quite different from  "the kind of knowledge given by revelation"  (David Wells:  179,  174). 

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