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Theologian Tyron Inbody compares it to
"intellectual Velcro dragged across culture" which "can be used to
characterize almost anything one approves or disapproves."(1)
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Umberto Eco, himself classified as a postmodern writer
due in large part to his novel The Name of the Rose, has written of postmodernism,
"I have the impression that it is applied today to anything the users of the term
happen to like."(2)
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We might say that postmodernity is
the condition in which late twentieth-century culture finds itself; postmodernism is a
reflection upon that condition and a response to it.
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The postmodern is,
therefore, a movement which has arisen in reaction to the modernism of Western
civilization.
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the
process of modernization continues to bring capitalism, urbanization, technology,
telecommunications, and Western popular culture to virtually every corner of
the globe.
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the postmodern should not be considered surprising, for the
postmodern is a way of recognizing that the world is in a period of transition. It is a
world "that has not yet discovered how to define itself in terms of what is,
but only in terms of what it has just-now-ceased to be."(6)
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"unsecularization of the world."
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In the words of
one observer, people "have seen these. . . . false gods fail. So now
we have the old gods coming back."(9)
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as a re-enchantment
of the world that modernity tried to dis-enchant."(10)
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postmodernity
is restoring the sacred.
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religion lies at the very heart of the postmodern condition.
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The postmodern era can best be understood in terms of four major characteristics: the
decline of the West, the legitimation crisis, the intellectual marketplace, and the
process of deconstruction.(12)
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Today there is an attempt to recover the
fragmented remains of these cultures as well as make certain that Western cultural
hegemony comes to an end.
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The first of these characteristics of postmodernity is the decline of the West.
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he second characteristic of postmodernity is what has come to be known as the
legitimation crisis.
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In the postmodern era it is no longer taken for granted that development is
unlimited or even that certain kinds of development are necessarily good.(15)
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When
previously held metanarratives are deprived of their authority, what follows is a
plurality of values.
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In Western culture this has resulted in a fragmentation of
society into special interest groups based on ethnicity, religion, and economic issues.
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this same fragmentation is taking place in the
mainline denominations and in contemporary theology.(17)
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With postmodernity, however, comes a momentous change; no longer can cultural and
religious knowledge and value be effectively controlled by the intellectual and political
elite. Satellite television networks, computers, and fax machines have made both
censorship and control obsolete.
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A fourth characteristic of postmodernity is what has come to be known as the process of
deconstruction. Deconstruction is exactly what the meaning of the word implies; it is the
taking apart of texts somewhat like the process of peeling away the layers of an onion.
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Deconstruction seeks to examine a text from all possible perspectives so that
individual bits of information are extracted and separated from each other.
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Thus "deconstruction
categorically asserts the absolute impossibility of attributing to any text one single
ultimate meaning."(21)
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This means that sacred texts, such as the Bible, do not have a single ultimate meaning nor
are such texts necessarily authoritative.
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that postmodernity is a socio-cultural state of being.
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Things which are plural in the postmodern world cannot be arranged in an
evolutionary sequence, or be seen as each other's inferior or superior stages; neither can
they be classified as "right" or "wrong" solutions to common problems.
No knowledge can be assessed outside the context of the culture, tradition, language game,
etc. which makes it possible and endows it with meaning.
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pluralism is perhaps the most obvious result of the
postmodern condition, and deconstruction eschews all forms of ultimate meaning. It can be
said, however, that "postmodernism arises out of the disillusionment with the modern
ideals felt by European intellectuals after World War II."(28)
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a rejection of classical metaphysical thought.
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In theology this rejection of classical metaphysics has taken the form of a
shift from deductive theology to inductive theology.
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the second major theme which is a rejection of
human autonomy.
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heology does not "fall from the skies" but is constructed within a
complex socio-cultural matrix.(31)
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nonfoundationalism,(32) which seeks to
disassociate theology from objective foundations such as Scripture, creeds and
confessions, and ecclesiastical tradition.
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A third theme in postmodernism is praxis, that is, serious concern for the practical
ethical aspects of human life.
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The fourth major theme is a strong anti-Enlightenment stance.
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"Theologians are the last universalists"
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Nonfoundationalism in theology would seek to
minimize the importance of Scripture, creeds and confessions, and church tradition.
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We must purify our minds of the
restrictive Christendom-centered theologies that have blurred the universality of Jesus
Christ. . .
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It may be that the time has come for theology to move a bit toward
universalism in an attempt to recover that delicate but ever so important balance.

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