I’ve been rather busy with my MA course over the last couple of months, but here are at last is the index to all the posts in my series on Christianity and Postmodernism. I hope to return to a more regular blogging schedule now that my essays have been written!
Make no mistake, Postmodernism is a hollow and deceptive philosophy that depends on the basic principles of the world, rather than on Christ, as Colossians 2:8 would put it. But so is Modernism. Both of them grasp at least some aspects of truth. Both bring not just challenges, but opportunities to witness to what God has done in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Against them both, we need to demonstrate that faith and reason work together to produce knowledge and discover truth. The Christian faith is not less than reasonable, but it is more than rationalism: the Gospel speaks to you as a whole person, intellect, will, emotions and every other aspect of you. Jesus calls you to follow him with all that you are. Examine the evidence, but do so knowing that before we can discover truth, we all have to answer the question “who will I trust?”
I’ll finish with the words of Jesus in Matthew 22:37-38, which sums all this up:
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.”
