the "scary" new worldview...
Everybody be frightened! Run and hide! Postmodernism is here!
Unfortunately, this is the reaction of many Christians to the ideological winds of change. It's hilarious, quite frankly. I mean, what did "modernity" ever do for Christianity? Do Christians really think that the reign of secular humanism was a good playing field for our religion? Isn't anyone else exhausted by the creation-evolution debates? Isn't anyone else tired of trying to memorize "evidence that demands a verdict" instead of the Scriptures?
There's all sorts of things that can be said about the issue of postmodernism, and I plan to write out as much as I can on the issue, but there's a fundamental truth we need to get back to - it is not the shifting sands of cultural and ideological trends that make or break Christianity. If we go back only as far as Abraham, and think about the 2,000 years that people held onto the hope of the coming Savior, and the 2,000 years that His coming has been celebrated, you have a religion that has remained steadfast in a wide diversity of cultures for 4,000 years.
My guess is, whatever happens with postmodernism, we're gonna be ok.
Unfortunately, this is the reaction of many Christians to the ideological winds of change. It's hilarious, quite frankly. I mean, what did "modernity" ever do for Christianity? Do Christians really think that the reign of secular humanism was a good playing field for our religion? Isn't anyone else exhausted by the creation-evolution debates? Isn't anyone else tired of trying to memorize "evidence that demands a verdict" instead of the Scriptures?
There's all sorts of things that can be said about the issue of postmodernism, and I plan to write out as much as I can on the issue, but there's a fundamental truth we need to get back to - it is not the shifting sands of cultural and ideological trends that make or break Christianity. If we go back only as far as Abraham, and think about the 2,000 years that people held onto the hope of the coming Savior, and the 2,000 years that His coming has been celebrated, you have a religion that has remained steadfast in a wide diversity of cultures for 4,000 years.
My guess is, whatever happens with postmodernism, we're gonna be ok.
posted by Travis Prinzi @ 3:06 PM
2 Comments:
At 9:47 AM,
Gaines said…
Regent Radio had a brief yet good series of lectures by N.T. Wright titled "Christian Hope in a Postmodern World." The condensed version is that postmodernism correctly identifies many of the huge problems with modernism -- unfortunately, the po-mos provide the wrong solutions to those problems. Wright's (correct, IMO) advice is that conservative Christians shouldn't be trying to battle post-modernism by arguing for a return to a modernist POV. Rather, we should press on through postmodernism and out the other side, continuing to offer the hope of the Gospel in place of the hopeless "solutions" that postmodernism offers.
At 9:44 AM,
Travis Prinzi said…
I'd agree with Wright on that. I'll have to check out that series if I get time.
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