Postmodernism: I need your help

[Rowland Croucher]

Dear ukr friends,

Pardon my intrusion here, but some of you have expertise in this area (we colonials
aren't as erudite about some things... :-)

I've been asked to talk to some conferences on the differences between modernism and
postmodernism, and want to make it simple. How about helping me complete this
imaginary overhead projector transparency? (As a pre-postmodernist I like things to be
logical/understood :-)!

(P.S. I know a little of the debate about whether 'postmodernism' ought to be regarded
as a misnomer: Lyotard speaks of postmodernism as the 'acceleration of modernism')

***MODERNISM*** ***POSTMODERNISM***

Truth is 'given'/there are absolutes All underlying premises are banished
somewhere (Relativism reigns)

Individualism The Group

Rationality/logic/scientism Search for transcendent / resacralizing
of nature

Media icons: The Brady Bunch (Mike is The Simpsons: no order, no one's in
the God-figure, sorting out good/evil charge. Main idea: what's right, now?

Best book/overview (secular): ??? ???

Best ditto (Christian) ??? ???

etc.

etc.

etc.

Thanks!

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Shalom! Rowland Croucher

Director, John Mark Ministries - resources for pastors/leaders.
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