{"id":419,"date":"2007-08-19T18:43:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T18:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2021-01-10T19:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T19:28:37","slug":"christianity-and-postmodernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/christianity-and-postmodernism\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity and Postmodernism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postmodernism is an amorphous term that started to appear in the middle of the 20th century and was first applied to a particular school of Art that rejected the normal and conventional conceptions of Art.\u00a0 Suddenly a concrete supermarket could be instantiated as an example of <em>&#8220;my Art&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>by an artist by him simply pointing at it and calling it &#8220;Art&#8221;, for reality is held to have its locus in the subject&#8217;s perception.\u00a0 Similarly, post-modern philosophy wants to reject the certainties or <em>&#8220;tyranny&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 of the objective or scientific view of the world to replace it with subjectivity.\u00a0 This held wide appeal for Christians that believed in the ultimate subjectivity of Christianity, that Christianity was about the authentic experiencing of God rather than being something that is simply believed.\u00a0 However, the Christian story in postmodernism just becomes one <em>possible<\/em>\u00a0 story, and the authority of scripture is lost in individual perception of a text with no fixed meaning.\u00a0 This short 1500 word coursework essay does a valiant job in introducing the appeal of, but the ultimate rejection of, postmodernism as a friend of Christianity.\u00a0 It has a remarkable number of references and a great bibliography for such a short piece of work.<\/p>\n<p>A PDF is found <a href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/Documents\/Content\/Postmodern-Christianity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postmodernism is an amorphous term that started to appear in the middle of the 20th century and was first applied to a particular school of Art that rejected the normal and conventional conceptions of Art.\u00a0 Suddenly a concrete supermarket could be instantiated as an example of &#8220;my Art&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0by an artist by him simply pointing at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,33],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-philosophy-of-religion","category-theology","tag-objectivity","tag-postmodernism","tag-subjectivity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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