This is from an email I sent in response to a student query about postmodernism.
The primary point I want to make is that a properly Christian perspective is neither modern nor postmodern. Both of those perspectives follow Descartes in seeing epistemology as fundamental and metaphysics as dependent on it. Historic orthodox Christianity, however, sees metaphysics as fundamental and epistemology as dependent on it.
Postmodernists are united not so much by what they affirm as by what they deny. What they all have in common is an acceptance of the modern view that epistemology is more fundamental than metaphysics together with a rejection of modernist commitments to the objectivity of reason (which may or may not mean a rejection of modernist commitments to the objectivity of truth). In short, postmodernists are exceedingly pessimistic modernists who reject modernism’s optimism about our ability to access objective truth.
Among Christians, the tendency has been to respond to postmodernist critiques of modernism either by rejecting those critiques and entrenching in a modernist perspective or accepting them and embracing broader postmodern attitudes. Neither of these responses seems, to me at least, to be faithful to that faith once for all delivered over to the saints.
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