{"id":1045,"date":"2001-08-27T00:18:37","date_gmt":"2001-08-27T00:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/august-qwhatever-happened-to-postmodernismq\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T21:22:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:22:13","slug":"august-qwhatever-happened-to-postmodernismq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/august-qwhatever-happened-to-postmodernismq\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To Postmodernism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe it\u2019s just the nature of the beast, but like a passing train, our fascination with this cultural phenomenon came upon us quickly and loudly, stopping everything in its path and demanding our piquant interest, until, just as fast, it rolled on past and we returned to newer and less demanding stimuli.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not that we think it is unimportant.\u00a0 We thought the New Age Movement was important, but these things come and go.\u00a0 Besides, if it does not affect our hearers directly, we may begin to sound monotonous and even narrow, stuck in a rut while others have moved on to newer things (as Chesterton said of the Middle Ages, \u201cthose who were trying to put things right were most vigorously accused of putting things wrong.\u201d1<\/sup>).\u00a0 It is imperative that leadership today have fresh ideas.\u00a0 We must recognize where the cutting edge exists and focus our attention there.\u00a0 Visionaries look forward to things not yet seen, they don\u2019t dwell on the past, with things that have been hashed and rehashed to death!\u00a0 As the philosopher said, everything has an end, except the sausage which has two!<\/p>\n

C.S. Lewis wrote, \u201cNothing is wonderful except the abnormal and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.\u201d2<\/sup> In other words, we may have a hard time seeing the new thing at all, either as a blessing or a curse, if we don\u2019t first have a firm grasp of our present condition.\u00a0 If the new thing agrees with our basic convictions, it is a blessing.\u00a0 But if the new thing is contrary to our foundational principles, it will be recognized as a curse.\u00a0 But if we have no abiding conviction or philosophy, the new thing is simply faddish or even boring.<\/p>\n

Postmodernism has been more like a virus than an invading army.\u00a0 It has permeated from within until it has brought all things to its own level, rather than conquering from without and destroying all that exists.\u00a0 A virus can make you weak and lethargic but may not drastically change your pattern of activity.\u00a0 Some can kill quickly and others slowly and still others can be overcome.\u00a0 But in either case, all active processes are affected though almost invisibly.<\/p>\n

Most cultural observers have predicted that postmodernism would change society at the most basic levels of honesty and integrity.\u00a0 Os Guinness, for example, wrote, \u00a0\u201cIf President Clinton did not exist, he would have to be invented.\u00a0 Or to express the point more carefully, the recent crisis of America\u2019s first postmodern president is not just the sad story of a flawed individual, but the full flowering of a generation of trends in American society.\u201d3<\/sup> Those tracking generational trends see millennial kids as outwardly clean-cut and polite, while inwardly void of moral direction.4<\/sup> We might say that the pass\u00e9 attitude toward postmodernism, and the tiring of its constant critique, even the hostility toward being labeled with such a word, is, for lack of a better term . . . Postmodern!<\/p>\n

The residual effect of this cultural virus may still be too difficult to detect or predict. \u00a0Some have seen postmodernism as a whole new era that follows two hundred years of modernism, while others have seen it more as a hinge that connects modernism to whatever is coming next.\u00a0 From a Christian perspective, we must keep the possibility open that this could be the generation of the Anti-Christ, with its lack of love for truth and its amoral ethic that all things are permitted for self-interest, and nothing is permitted which is opposed to that.<\/p>\n

Within professing Christendom these residual effects are beginning to surface.\u00a0 I would propose that the following postmodern characteristics linger among us and are commonly accepted within many churches.<\/p>\n

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Change is the only acceptable standard<\/h3>\n

As Christians, we cherish our belief in measuring all things by the unchanging standard of God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 We understand that we cannot tamper with the Word of God or with the absolutes which it places in our lives.\u00a0 We also have a profound respect for the tradition of our faith for the last two thousand years and we work diligently at teaching that to our children.\u00a0 To pay respect to tradition is to give all past generations of believers a say-so in our current affairs.\u00a0 At the same time, we understand that man was created to create.\u00a0 It is art of the highest order for one who is made in God\u2019s image to make, produce, invent and grow things in this world.\u00a0 \u201cDoing\u201d is one of the two \u201cdignities of causality\u201d given to us be our Creator.\u00a0 The second is prayer.<\/p>\n

But, frankly, none of this is what the postmodernist is getting at when he talks of change.\u00a0 He is talking of a lack of absolutes; a world that is here by random chance and changes in order to survive.\u00a0 To change is to always get better.\u00a0 Change creates new information; change eliminates the old; change produces a new set of moral standards by the minute; change destroys any old moral standards including God.\u00a0 Charles Jencks, a leading postmodernist wrote, \u201cOne of the key shifts to the Post-Modern world will be a change in epistemology, the understanding of knowledge and how it grows and relates to other assumptions.\u201d5<\/sup><\/p>\n

Christians that defend change are not talking the same language as the postmodernist when he defends change.\u00a0 But the postmodernist will gladly accept the confusion because it proves that his thesis is true: meaning and truth change constantly.<\/p>\n

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Ethnology is the only history there is<\/h3>\n

An Ethnologist is one who studies the culture (or \u201cethnos\u201d) of any people.\u00a0 He is not so much interested in the facts of what happened as in the\u00a0 motivation for why it happened.\u00a0\u00a0 Thus Thomas Jefferson is accused of fathering a child by a slave-woman, not because the facts show conclusively that he did, but simply because he could have.\u00a0 And believing that he did is better for today\u2019s needed tolerance than not believing it.<\/p>\n

Two Christian authors from the Toronto Institute for Christian Study, make this alarming statement:\u00a0 \u201cSince all worldviews in a postmodern reading are merely human inventions, decisively conditioned by the social context in which they occur, and certainly not given to us by either nature or revelation, any \u2018truth\u2019 we claim for our cherished positions must be kept strictly in quotation marks.\u201d6<\/sup><\/p>\n

Thus we are seeing Christians defend their \u201cright\u201d to do strange things based on cultural practices from both the past and the present.\u00a0 With seeming little regard for the fallen nature of man\u2019s constitution, any expression from within the imagination of his heart is immediately accepted as either good, or at the least, morally neutral.\u00a0 The postmodernist has come to this ethnology because he has eliminated all basis for moral expression, while the postmodern Christian has done the same by, strangely, professing that the only moral standard is the Bible.\u00a0 All else is fair game.<\/p>\n

Added to this is the current disdain for strict fundamentalism.\u00a0 Alan Wolfe, writing for the Atlantic Monthly <\/em>says, \u201cPostmodernism exercises such a fascination over the evangelical mind, I believe, because of the never-ending legacy of fundamentalism.\u00a0 In one sense evangelical scholars have moved away from Billy Sunday and in the direction of French poststructuralism: they cast their lot with those who question any truths rather than those who insist on the literal truth of God\u2019s word.\u201d7<\/sup> Some are so embarrassed by their Christian heritage that they would rather take the road less criticized.<\/p>\n

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Truth is a broader tent than it used to be<\/h3>\n

Probably the best-known character trait of postmodernism is the denial of absolute truth.\u00a0 This criticism is fair.\u00a0 Albeit, a postmodernist might deny that proposition by arguing that truth is absolute, but only for the moment.\u00a0 Since all things are constantly changing (even, we find, the orbit of the molecules within the atom) nothing remains \u201ctruth\u201d even for a second.\u00a0 By the time it takes you to describe the truth, all has changed and it is truth no longer.\u00a0 So we are left with Kierkegaard\u2019s postulate, \u201cThe thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.\u201d8<\/sup><\/p>\n

No serious believer can accept this premise.\u00a0 But as a rising tide raises all boats, so the love for truth even in the church is born along too much by the culture around us.\u00a0 One secular writer remembers, \u201cWhen Hermes took the post of messenger of the gods, he promised Zeus not to lie.\u00a0 He did not promise to tell the whole truth.\u00a0 Zeus understood.\u201d9<\/sup> I think we could live with that in many Christian circles!\u00a0 If George Washington couldn\u2019t tell a lie, and Richard Nixon couldn\u2019t tell the truth, we can\u2019t seem to tell the difference!<\/p>\n

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And So . . .<\/h3>\n

The list could go on, including the canny ability we have to criticize ourselves for being postmodernists while all the time enjoying being postmodernists.\u00a0 Some of the best definitions of the virus have come from those who have it.\u00a0 But truth and knowledge can only help us if they truly force us to their side.\u00a0 Whatever happened to postmodernism?\u00a0 It is alive and well and has found a welcome incubation even in Christian culture.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas <\/em> (New York: Image Books, 1956) 74.<\/address>\n
2. C.S. Lewis, God In The Dock <\/em>(Grand Rapids: Eerdman\u2019s, 1994) 26.<\/address>\n
3. Os Guinness, Character Counts <\/em>(Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999) 9.<\/address>\n
4. I have reviewed William Strauss and Neil Howe\u2019s Millennials Rising <\/em>as well as the Atlantic Monthly\u2019<\/em>s April 2001 article, \u201cThe Organization Kid.\u201d\u00a0 Both present a picture of the \u201cMillennial\u201d generation as smart, polite, aggressive, no-nonsense young people but at the same time devoid of moral foundations apart from their own drive to succeed.<\/address>\n
5. Charles Jencks, \u201cWhat Is Post-Modernism?\u201d From Modernism to Postmodernism <\/em>(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. 478.<\/address>\n
6. Quoted by Albert Mohler, The Coming Evangelical Crisis <\/em>(Chicago:\u00a0 Moody, 1996) 37.<\/address>\n
7. Alan Wolfe, \u201cThe Opening of the Evangelical Mind,\u201d The Atlantic Monthly<\/em>, October, 2000, 73.<\/address>\n
8. Quoted by Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God<\/em>? (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1994) 205.<\/address>\n
9. Andrea Fontana, \u201cEthnographic Trends in the Postmodern Era,\u201d Postmodernism and Social Inquiry<\/em>, David Dickens & Andrea Fontana, eds. (New York: The Guilford Press, 1994) 219.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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