Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
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The Modern, Post-Enlightenment Mind
Apr 17th
The Modern, Post-Enlightenment mind assumes that knowledge is certain, objective, and good. It presupposes that the rational, dispassionate self can obtain such knowledge. It presupposes that the knowing self peers at the mechanistic world as a neutral observer armed with the scientific method.
The modern knower engages in the knowing process and believing that knowledge [...]
Kant’s Basis of Category and Nietzsche’s Response
Feb 22nd
“Nietzsche is not merely repeating what Kant had said a century earlier. Kant argued that the self constructs knowledge by means of transcendental categories derived from the mind, which he assumed to be structurally the same in all persons.persons. He believed that this sameness of structure — this shared human nature — provides the foundation [...]
The Violence of Thought
Feb 21st
“[We often] overlook the fact that no two things or occurrences are exactly the same. Consequently, rather than mediating genuine knowledge, our conceptualizing robs reality of its multiplicity and destroys the original richness and vitality of human experience.”[1]
Notes:
A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1657-59 [↩]Scridb filter
Radical Surgery Needed
Feb 11th
I need to get packing something fierce, so this is short and malformed.
In my view, postmodern philosophy[1] is primarily seeking out a better way of viewing reality and knowledge[2] than is found in modern philosophy.[3]
Is anything present in postmodernism that unifies it as a movement and isit is just a synonym for “deconstructive relativism,” as [...]
Thinking Out Loud
Jan 21st
"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge" – John Wesley #
It is taking 15 minutes to open a word doc to print. #
Xians need to engage :: #Nietzsche #loss_of_myth #Heidegger #Dasein #Gadamer #neither_objectivism_nor_reletivism #
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Foundationalism
Dec 8th
A few days ago, I posted a picture which I thought demonstrated the relationship between Modernism, Foundationalism, Fundamentalism, and Christianity. I’d like to clarify what I am talking about there, here. And critique it:
A rough approximation of how Modernism, Foundationalists, Fundamentalists, and Christianity relate to one another.
By Modernism, I mean the paradigm(s) of [...]
The Resurrection of Drama – A Review of Kingdom Triangle by Moreland
Dec 7th
In this wildly ambitious work, Moreland seeks to cure Christianity from the malaise that plagues – the death of drama; he is mostly successful, though not for the reasons he would give. Written for a popular audience, the Kingdom Triangle is divided into two sections; the first attempts to show us the “crisis of our [...]
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