Tag Archives: Postmodernism
We are all well aware of the growing drug epidemic in our country. Many efforts are being made to address this problem including innovative medical therapies and increased availability of mental health services. While these efforts are noble, very few people seem concerned with identifying the source of the problem. Sadly, as we do with so many of our societal ills, we spend…..
If we want to reach our postmodern youth then we need to change our evangelistic approach. The rarefied air of traditional apologetics has left our young people divinely light-headed, therefore, we must bring them back to earth to regain their balance and then teach them to dig around in the dirt of common experience to find hidden heavenly treasure. In my previous blogs, we soiled our knees by exploring…..
In the popular 1960’s television show, Get Smart, our hero, Maxwell Smart and his organization Control, were locked in a weekly battle with the evil organization, Kaos. While it lacked a certain philosophical gravitas, it still serves to remind us of the ongoing struggle we face every day of our lives. We also want to control the chaos in our world, and while it may be as…..
Postmodernism arose as a reaction to the modernist claims that absolute truth was found only through science and that the spiritual realm didn’t exist. Postmodernism responded by establishing personal experience as the yardstick of reality and adopting the new spirituality as the way to reclaim the transcendent. Our youth have embraced this worldview because they know life is more than natural laws and religious legalisms, randomized controlled experiments and canon law. They have become what Pew refers to as the, “nones,” a group…..
The Barna Group and Summit Ministries recently released a study that investigated the influence of various worldviews on Christianity. While we tend to think of atheism as the biggest threat, they found that postmodernism and the new spirituality have actually had a greater impact. As I mentioned in my last blog, Christianity has become overly reliant on a modernist, enlightenment apologetic and neglected the unique…..
In the Princess Bride, Vizzini carelessly uses the word “inconceivable” in conversation. Inigo Montoya finally points out that the word he is so fond of using does not mean what Vizzini thinks it does. Our culture has adopted this same “Vizzinian” approach to language by deconstructing words and changing the way in which they are commonly understood. The problem is…..
Christians are engaged in a cultural worldview battle. Our two most prominent adversaries are the philosophical forces of modernism and postmodernism. Modernism, assembles its atheistic forces and engages the Bible and its adherents in conventional warfare. These skirmishes are often conducted in college auditoriums where the generals of each side spar in a war of words. Postmodernism, on the…..
Postmodernism arose as a response to the modernist claims that truth is determined scientifically and that life is nothing but chemicals. It didn’t like the idea of universal truth whether it was scientific, religious, or philosophical. It bristled at the thought of science as the new sheriff in town, especially since they thought they had already demoted the previous religious and government law…..
