The Search for Answers and Meaning

Recently I’ve come to view cul­ture and soci­ety as a search for answers and mean­ing. It seems to me that this is some­thing I should have hap­pened upon a long time ago, how­ever, that’s of no con­se­quence now. What this means, though, is that how I approach post­moder­nity within Chris­tian­ity has changed some what, in the sense that, I think, I have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what exactly is going on. I’ve tried to cre­ate... Read More

Truth as a symptom

“The pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with ‘truth’ among emer­gents has often been pushed on them by their con­ser­v­a­tive crit­ics, pri­mar­ily because truth is a cen­tral con­cern of theirs. And their pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with truth is a symp­tom of their mod­ernism. They want the Bible to be unswerv­ingly fac­tual (here, truth equals fact), for if it is, then its claims about eter­nal sal­va­tion can­not be ignored. So they pub­lish... Read More

A Proper Epistemology?

It occurs to me that a proper Epis­te­mo­log­i­cal foun­da­tion begins by acknowl­edg­ing the pre­mod­ern notion that all human knowl­edge is a sub-set of God’s knowl­edge, while at the same time per­mit­ting the post­mod­ern notion that no one has a God’s eye view of real­ity, truth, soci­ety, etc., and that, in effect, we all have rel­a­tive per­spec­tives (there are many “I’s”). I would rather con­sider this fol­low­ing... Read More

Whose Epistemology?

Post­mod­ernism, like mod­ernism before it, is built around the Carte­sian idea that all knowl­edge begins with the “I” that exists (cog­ito, ergo sum: I think, there­fore I am — Descartes).  Post­mod­ernism dif­fers from mod­ernism in the sense that the “I” is con­stantly chang­ing (this leads into per­spec­tivism). Pre­mod­ernism, how­ever, holds to the idea (cor­rectly) that knowl­edge starts with God, thus, all... Read More