Stewart Kelly

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  Understanding Postmodernism : A Christian Perspective

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  1 Introduction And Background
  2. Criteria For Evaluating Postmodernism
  3. The Demise Of Enlightenment Modernism
  4. The Observer As Situated
  5. Philosophy Of Language
  6. Truth And Social Construction
  7. Postmodernism And The Self
  8. Realism And Antirealism, Objectivity And Subjectivity
  9. On Metanarratives And Oppression
  10. Doubts About Metanarratives
  11. Truth, Faith, And Postmodernism
  12. Postmodernism And The Critique Of Enlightenment Reason
  13. The Hope Of The Gospel
  14. Where Do We Go From Here?
  Appendix: Chart On Modernism And Postmodernism
  Author Index
  Subject Index
  Scripture Index

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  Postmodernity has matured. But the challenge of navigating our contemporary culture remains. In order for Christians to make wise decisions, we first need to understand the many facets of our postmodern context.

  If Rene Descartes is often identified as the first truly modern philosopher in light of his confidence in human reason, then postmodernism has taken Descartes to the woodshed. Stewart Kelly and James Dew detail the litany of concerns that postmodernism has raised: overconfidence in human reason, the limitations of language, the relativity of truth, the lack of a truly objective view, the inherently oppressive nature of metanarratives, the instability of the human self, and the absence any moral superiority.

  With wisdom and care, Kelly and Dew compare these postmodern principles with the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Christian faith. What emerges is neither a rejection of everything postmodernism is concerned with nor a wholesale embrace of all that it affirms. Instead, we are encouraged to understand the postmodern world as we seek to mature spiritually in Christ.

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  Truth Considered And Applied

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  For philosophy and theology students, Truth Considered and Applied examines the leading theories of truth in relation to postmodernism, history, and the Christian faith. Author Stewart E. Kelly defends Christianity in the face of postmodernist challenges that would label such religious faith as merely one version of truth among many in a pluralistic world. Likewise, in looking at Christianity as a historical faith, Kelly supports the need for Christians to develop a hermeneutic that does justice to the biblical texts and our informed understanding of the past in general; because if a genuine past cannot be recovered in some meaningful sense, the claims of Jesus being incarnate and risen from the dead are seriously jeopardized.

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