Crystal Downing on Postmodernism

What is Postmodernism? Is it a threat to Christianity and can Christians learn from postmodern thinkers and their critique of modernism?

Dr Crystal Downing is Co-Director of the Marion E. Wade Center and co-holder of the Marion E. Wade Chair in Christian Thought at Wheaton College, Illinois in the States.

‘How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art’ is published by IVP America. 

• (1:00) What Dorothy L. Sayers would have made of postmodernism;
• (3:35) The problem with simplistic views of postmodernism;
• (5:00) Why Christians have responded to postmodernism as a threat.  Postmodernism is not saying that everything is relative;
• (8:41) Does postmodernism actually deny truth claims?
• (10:51) Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism;
• (11:19) C.S Lewis and his dislike of modernism;
• (16:40) Problems with modernism in the arts and sciences;
• (17:44) Our positionality affects the way we see truth;
• (19:17) A football field with glass towers and different screens of language;
• (25:30) Postmodernism is not about inventing any kind of truth we want. 

Links mentioned in today’s episode:

www.ivpress.com

www.wheaton.edu

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art

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