Popular Postmodernism

I will not hide from the fact that some people are very vocal about the passing of philosophical postmodernism, some advocate a post-postmodernism, and some think it has yet to completely manifest itself.  Yet, wherever you fall on this issue, if you even care, there is still plenty of room for consensus on the effects [...]

What We Can Say

On February 13th I posted regarding the complexities of language and the limits we have in conveying meaning. This should not discourage us though, once we have a better grasp of how language functions, we will find that we can say quite a lot.  My metaphor for meaning in the postmodern context is a painting. [...]

Playing With Language

We continue our look at the postmodern world with the implications of postmodernism for how we talk about and use language. While the modern conception of language was more of a one to one representation, the postmodern idea of language is open to interpretation and muddies the water a bit.
In the postmodern world language is [...]

Grappling with Postmodernism

ReToday I will continue to flesh out the philosophical postmodern movement that underlies our popular context today.  Some critique of postmodernism will be forthcoming, but for now I am trying to outline some of its features that are useful for the church today.
The emphasis on perspectives
among postmodern thinkers on one hand appears to be [...]

The Word “Postmodern”

Andrew Jones has some great thoughts on our use of the word Postmodern and how relevant it is for us today. Postmodernism is only of interest to me as far as it is the context in which we currently operate. Jones typically separates himself from philosophical postmodernism and prefers to interact with cultural postmodernism.
He [...]

Defining Postmodernism: Part One

It’s important to have a basic grasp of the influence of postmodernism on our culture today if we want to bring the Kingdom of God to our world.  While it is not essential that every Christian be able to parse out the subtle nuances of postmodern philosophy, there are importants trends and marks of the [...]