The title of this book interested me along with the sub-title: How modern thinking about God went wrong. Placher follows the thinking about God from before the modern period to after the modern period. He agrees with the post-modern refutation of new theology, especially in the area (as the title implies) of reducing God’s awe […]
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The Words Are Still What Count
How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word! What more can He say than to you He hath said, To you, who for refuge to Jesus have fled? I’m late with this article. I have spent the first five days of November in Los Angeles […]
The Postmodern Turn
Yet another book by two U. of Texas professors of philosophy. Very informative from a secular point of view. RCS
Unriddling Our Times
I read all the books by Os Guinness that I see. This book is sub-titled “Reflections on the Gathering Cultural Crisis.” It is a trilogy of stories that reflect the words of twentieth century voices that have cried out to our generation to heed the dangers. Reinhold Schneider, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Shirley Jackson are three […]
Positions
The only thing worse than those who evaluate postmodernism is postmodernism itself. Derrida has been the leading postmodern thinker of our time, especially in France and Europe. His “Grammatology” is the foundation for saying that language, written or spoken, never passes on to the reader or listener anything that can be called “fact” because words […]
Postmodernism and Social Inquiry
Twelve sociology and humanity professors from ten major universities contributed to this book. You find this kind of book in the philosophy section at Barnes & Noble. After having read many Christian men write on postmodernism, I am in the process of reading both the original sources and also non-Christians who are evaluating them. There […]
We Are Also History Revisionists!
St. Amant: “The historian can never allow the message of history to create historical facts. Nor can he ignore or distort those facts in the interest of his own bias.”1 Antiphon: “Be not so unjust; rather leave something for that other witness, Time, who aids the zealous seekers of eternal truth.”2 One of the primary […]
Our Moral Dilemma With Ethnic Cleansing
All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the twentieth century’s moral poverty. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualizing and irreligious humanistic consciousness. Alexander Solzhenitsyn1 We are experiencing a moral schizophrenia in our country today. We have just been dragged, kicking and screaming, […]
Truth, Evangelism & the Postmodern Mind
This is a 3-tape series of messages presented at Trinity International University’s May 1998 conference “Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns.” These messages are going to be part of a book coming out this year. You can buy the tapes through the Ravi Zacharias Ministries. Two tapes are by Zacharias and one is by Carson. Both […]
The Everlasting Man
Starting off the year with this book was not an easy task. As a matter of fact, I would not advise this book as a starting place for reading Chesterton. (start with his smaller book, Orthodoxy) I would, however, advise reading the book sometime. He gives a short purpose for the book by saying, “The […]