Title: Postmodernism: The 'Spirit of the Age'
Headings: Postmodernism: The 'Spirit of the Age'
Postmodernism: The 'Spirit of the Age'
Why debating religious truth is arrogant
Postmodernism means the death of truth
Personal beliefs define what's true
Postmodern spirituality and the church
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Content: Today, Christianity is widely rejected, not because it was critically examined and found wanting, but merely because it claims to be true. Increasingly, American academics regard claims to objective and universal truth as intolerant and uninformed. What accounts for this bizarre and growing consensus? It's called postmodernism. Postmodern ideology rejects the authority of reason and views all claims to objective truth to be dangerous. For these enormously influential thinkers, truth is political and created by "belief communities," not discovered rationally and objectively. That the academic community is experiencing a major ideological revolution is beyond doubt. Like all intellectual movements, postmodernism deeply effects the broader culture. In this article, I will show how popular religious views mirror academic postmodernism, then clarify the challenge of this new consensus for the church. Abigail Van Buren has provided America with practical advice on almost every problem imaginable.