postmodernism

Tribal Church

Ensuing eagerness

Why thinking about the future of the church gives me hope

Mar 18, 2013 by Carol Howard Merritt

Though I sympathize with those who feel weary when talking about what is to come, I forge ahead because the "future" is not far off, planning is vital, and I care about a new generation.

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Faithful reinvention

Ministry in the 21st century

Feb 15, 2012 | An interview with Scott Kershner

"Religious commitments are no longer taken for granted as part of North American people's lives," says Scott Kershner of Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center in Washington State. "So space opens up to ask very basic and interesting questions."

Books

In the Days of Caesar

Pentecostalism and Political Theology

By Amos Yong

In the Days of Caesar, by Amos Yong

Nov 23, 2011 reviewed by Robin Lovin

In the course of the 20th century, Pentecostalism expanded from a small revival movement to a global presence comparable in its extent and variety to Roman Catholicism or Anglicanism. Yet few people in mainstream U.S. churches know much about it, and what little they do know relates more to Pentecostal practice than to Pentecostal thought.

Books

Face to face with Jesus

Aug 25, 1999 by William C. Placher

Self and Salvation: Being Transformed, by David F. Ford

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Salvation at Stake, by Brad S. Gregory

Aug 02, 2000 reviewed by Ellen L. Babinsky

Martyrdom appears so utterly alien to our time because postmodern theorists have reduced the truth claims of Western Christianity to private opinion, making any reference to ultimate truth unbelievable and certainly unverifiable. So asserts Brad S. Gregory in his impressive study of 16th-century martyrs and persecutors.

Books

Postmodern Christians

Nov 22, 2000 by Leo D. Lefebure

Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion), edited by Merold Westphal

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Proclaiming the Scandal, by Jerome E. Burce

Dec 13, 2000 Reviewed by Wayne A. Holst

Lutheran pastor Jerome E. Burce addresses the challenge of mission and ministry in postmodern North American culture. Proclaiming the Scandal describes the Good News as "folly" and a "stumbling block" which is no easier to believe and preach today than in the early centuries of the church.

Books

Modern and postmodern forms of unbelief

Jan 26, 2000 by Philip Hefner

God’s Funeral, by A. N. Wilson

Features

Postmodern fallacies

A response to Merold Westphal
Jul 26, 2003 by Douglas Groothuis
In a provocative and erudite essay, Merold Westphal argues that postmodern philosophy contributes to a Christian understanding of the implications of finitude and original sin with respect to knowledge (Blind spots: Christianity and postmodern philosophy, June 14).
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Postmodern fallacies

Merold Westphal replies
Jul 26, 2003 by Merold Westphal
I thank Douglas Groothuis for his response, but I cannot agree that the “Enlightenment project” as described by postmodernism is a “caricature” that “may loosely fit Descartes, but few others.” It is essential to the rationalist philosophers Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz; and in his own utterly unique way Hegel also holds that philosophy can be a presuppositionless science, transcending all parti