One of the most useless terms in lay apologetics is “postmodern.” It usually means “someone different from me but I am not sure how.” Or it means Brian McLaren. Postmodernism as a critical literary and philosophical position is rarely distinguished from applications of postmodernism by hippie, angry, post-evangelicals. Imagine a charted continuum. I can’t do …
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Hyper-certainty as overcoming creaturely being
That’s as good a continental philosophy title as one could find. There is a valid point, though. This morning I was listening to James K. A. Smith’s lecture on contingency and relativism (given at the Horton Wiley talks, available on ItunesU). He raises a good point that we often forget when facing claims by …
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