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Postmodernism\u2019s pragmatic instrumental view of language is why image is everything in our culture.\u00a0 Language is not neutral but a tool by which those in power or in control of the media can manipulate and construct reality.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/p>\n

Timothy Phillips and Dennis Okholm<\/p>\n

I believe it was Confucius who said, \u201cWhen words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.\u201d\u00a0 History is full of examples of tyrants and other manipulators who changed the course of nations by redefining words and concepts.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I was interested when I saw an article entitled, \u201cJuliet and Shakespeare\u2019s Other Nominalists.\u201d2<\/sup> Nominalism is a centuries old philosophy that says there are no universal truths outside one\u2019s own perception of truth (just because I can think about you doesn\u2019t prove you exist except in my mind).\u00a0 The author of the article is pointing out that Shakespeare wrote in light of the ideas circulating in his time.\u00a0 In that day, Juliet\u2019s proposal that Romeo change his name (because, after all, \u201cWhat\u2019s in a name: That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet\u201d) was a way of proposing that nothing that existed outside the two of them really mattered.\u00a0 There were those nominalists in Shakespeare\u2019s day who first removed anything eternal from their existence, then anything outside their empirical world, then anything outside their own mind.\u00a0 Reality was reduced to the \u201cnominal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young says, \u201cNominalist epistemology is a step in the direction of postmodern liberation from the constraints of political and religious hierarchies.\u201d3<\/sup> We have a generation of Romeo and Juliets today who care about nothing outside themselves.\u00a0 We have spent thirty years educating them in this self-centered philosophy that nothing really matters but them.\u00a0 Why should we be surprised when a skin-head shoots a black man \u201cbecause he was in the wrong place\u201d?\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t really exist anyway!<\/p>\n

The Christian point of view is vividly seen in the Book of Hebrews. There we see the tabernacle of the Old Testament as an earthly representation of a heavenly tabernacle; the earthly priesthood as fulfilled in a heavenly priesthood.\u00a0 That is, living by faith is living with a constant realization that the universal exists.\u00a0 God\u2019s sphere of existence is out there too.\u00a0 In fact, we are instructed to look for that world at the expense of this world (and never vice versa).\u00a0 Nominalism is at complete odds with the biblical view of life and faith.\u00a0 Faith is the ability to see much more than inside one\u2019s own world.<\/p>\n

The writer of Hebrews addressed a unique problem.\u00a0 Whereas the temple trappings and symbolisms were supposed to remind them of God, they were keeping them from seeing Him by faith.\u00a0 It was easier and more enjoyable, not to mention more acceptable, to worship with the sights and sounds of the temple than in the plain, simple service of the Christians.\u00a0 That is, the symbols and the sounds of the place can either serve as a reminder of the God we worship, or they can become the god we worship.\u00a0 In the Jews\u2019 case, the temple was <\/em>their worship.\u00a0 They had become nominalists in the sense that they reduced their worship down to the place and experience, but it was not connected to anything outside themselves.<\/p>\n

There was a time in history when the Greek Orthodox Church stressed so much the beauty of the Byzantine architecture and church buildings, that their icons became idols.\u00a0 \u201cOn the surface this conflict, which raged for over a century, was a disagreement over the use of icons.\u00a0 But at a deeper level it was a disagreement over which things were sufficiently sacred or holy to deserve worship.\u201d4<\/sup> It was what I call \u201cworshiping worship.\u201d\u00a0 Gene Veith calls it \u201ca conceptual shift of focus away from the object of art to the person of the artist.\u201d5<\/sup><\/p>\n

We see the potential for modern nominalism all around us today.\u00a0 The elaborate structures have been replaced by electronic sights.\u00a0 The stained-glass windows have been replaced by rear-screen projectors.\u00a0 The moment these keep us from faith rather than helping our faith, they are icons that have become idols.\u00a0 How else could I explain the phenomenal growth of the local Unity Church due to an aggressive use of electronic, high-tech methodology, even though their doctrine denies the existence of a personal God?\u00a0 Their worship service is virtually the same as many evangelical churches but evidently that is all many people are seeking\u2014the worship experience.\u00a0 Francis Schaeffer described modern man this way:\u00a0 \u201cThe tragedy is not only that these talented men have reached the point of despair, but that so many who look on and admire really do not understand.\u00a0 They are influenced by the concepts, and yet they have never realized what it all means.\u201d6<\/sup><\/p>\n

In reading a recent article about church technology,7<\/sup> the author states, \u201cAs more churches attempt to reinvent themselves as relevant institutions in a society driven by images, speed and information, technology has become an increasingly important worship and marketing tool . . . . The trend is feuled by the convergence of paradigm shifts in both religious worship expression and technology.\u201d\u00a0 The article gives advice to corporations which can learn what works and what doesn\u2019t in attracting people to their product.\u00a0 Neil Postman is correct when he observes that this \u201cTechnopoly\u201d only \u201cblocks the way to such consideration by beginning with the question of how we should proceed rather than with the question of why.\u201d8<\/sup><\/p>\n

The Brazen Serpent was first an implement, then an icon, then an idol.\u00a0 The process caused a whole nation to miss their Messiah.\u00a0 Praise God for its implementation when it was a tool that gave people faith but cursed it was, when it became an idol for worshiping worship, a technological symbol that had lost its substance.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis Okholm, Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World <\/em>(Downer\u2019s Grove: IVP, 1995) 14.<\/address>\n
2. R.V. Young, \u201cJuliet and Shakespeare\u2019s Other Nominnalists,\u201d The Intercollegiate Review,<\/em> Fall 1997.<\/address>\n
3. Young, 21.<\/address>\n
4. Bruce Shelley, Church History In Plain Language<\/em> (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1995) 147.<\/address>\n
5. Gene Veith, Jr., State Of The Arts<\/em> (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1991) 93.<\/address>\n
6. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There<\/em> (Downer\u2019s Grove:\u00a0 IPV, 1968) 33.<\/address>\n
7. Dave Zielinski, \u201cChurches Go Hi-Tech: Delivering Presentations from the Pulpit,\u201d Presentations Magazine<\/em>, December 1997.<\/address>\n
8. Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of a Culture To Technology<\/em> (New York: Vintge Books, 1992) 171.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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