postmodernism
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Postmodernism is the description given to the prevailing worldview in current Western culture. It poses a variety of challenges to Christianity.
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Letters (nucleus - winter 2004)
Postmodernism - Editor, I appreciated Marcus Honeysett’s article ‘Christians in a postmodern world’ in April’s Nucleus (pp26-32). However I was uneasy at the way it came across as overwhelmingly negative about my culture. A closer look at the relationship between the gospel and culture might help....
Christians in a Postmodern World (nucleus - summer 2004)
Marcus Honeysett looks at how postmodernism is affecting the church - Culture is unavoidable. It is the air we breathe. Whether it is wholesome or toxic we cannot avoid culture and we cannot avoid making some level of judgment about what is valuable in culture. This is often at an unconscious...
What is Truth - and Who Cares Anyway? (triple helix - winter 2002)
Richard Hain on post-modernism's trivialisation of truth - Someone whose faith is not grounded in reason is like a stream of water that can be led anywhere.[1] Christianity claims to be the story of God's broken relationship with his creation and its subsequent healing. If it is true at all, it...
Brave New Postmodern NHS (triple helix - autumn 2000)
The NHS has undergone huge upheavals in recent years. These are a reflection of wider cultural changes in society; collectively described as postmodernism. The dominating themes of the post-modern era include the loss of grand meta-narrative (a unifying world-view held by the majority of people in...