229 Relational Epistemology and the Art of Living Together 7 faithfulness when entering a more diverse and multireligious context. Their own social in-group brings them a kind of safety (‘safety’-coded quotations appeared 31 times in the minutes and transcripts, including 9 times in conjunctions). This safety has a connection to a kind of social truth-holding in which the social group plays a vital role. To illustrate this truth-holding, one of the TAR participants referred to ‘those things which are most surely believed among us’, as the Apostle Luke pronounced in Luke 1:1. It is the ingroup that is supposed to hold the truth, while the out-group is supposed to walk in darkness. There is, in the student conception as analysed by the conversational community, also a middle-group between the in- and the outgroup. This is the group of people who tend to negotiate truth while trying to be open and learning from perspectives present in the out-group. Truth faces immediate danger when the in-group weakens or seems to blend in with the middle-group. Meeting number Code appear. Nature of meeting appearance 11 10 Topic came up and was recognised 12 6 Preparation of special meeting on topic 13 29 Special meeting on topic with students 14 8 Evaluation of special meeting 17 2 Elaboration on the topic in devotion 18 1 Elaboration on the topic in devotion From the 11th meeting onwards, the conversational community spoke about what this social tendency does to the way a social in-group thinks about (absolute) truth. The code ‘absolute truth’ appeared 56 times, starting from TAR meeting 11 (10 times), continuing without interruption until TAR meeting 14 (8 times) and afterwards re-appearing in the final coded minutes due to the starting devotions dedicated to the topic by two participants. Meeting 13 was obviously crucial for the topic, as the code ‘absolute truth’ appeared no less than 29 times during it. This was the meeting that the conversational community specifically dedicated to the topic. It decided to invite 10 senior DCU
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