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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 [...]
The Primacy of a Lived Faith
Feb 24th
“Members of the next generation are often unimpressed by our verbal presentations of the gospel. What they want to see is a people who live out the gospel in wholesome, authentic, and healing relationships.”[1]
Notes:
A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 3150-52 [↩]Scridb filter
The Church and New Cultural Forms
Feb 22nd
“Part of the Christian calling is to appraise any new eth os that shapes the culture in which God calls believers to live as his people. One goal of this task is to equip the church to articulate and embody the gospel in the context of that culture.” [1]
Notes:
A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) [...]
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
Nietzsche’s View of the World
Feb 19th
“Nietzsche’s view, the world is made up of fragments that are totally different from one another.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1657 [↩]Scridb filter
Subject-Object Dualism
Feb 18th
“[The] feature of Cartesianism that has received the most criticism is its inherent subject-object dualism. If the self is a thinking subject, then the self necessarily perceives every other kind of thing as an object. The resultant distinction between subject and object endows the subject with greater importance than the object. It sets the knowing [...]
Beings in the World
Feb 17th
“Heidegger contends that the human being is not primarily a thinking self, a subject that engages in cognitive acts; rather, we are above all else beings-in-the-world, enmeshed in social networks.”[1]
Notes:
A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1602-3 [↩]Scridb filter
Descartes and the creation of the Body
Feb 16th
“But by focusing on the thinking self, Descartes relegates the body to a sphere outside of and apart from the thinking subject.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1586-87 | Added on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 07:11 PM [↩]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 23rd
New Post :: Of Wind, Jesus, and Control… oh and Natural Disasters too :: http://bit.ly/5Lfyut #
The Answer to the Problem of Evil is often Work. #
The PomoXian must heal the body & soul torn asunder by the Enlightenment Project and insert that person back into its social context. #
Every Xian theologian must read Grenz's A [...]
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 [...]
Too Much of a Good Thing :: The Character of Theology by Franke
Dec 5th
Standing firmly within the Reformed tradition, [1] John Franke, in The Character of Theology, sets out to make a case for postconservative theology. At a critical level, Franke is wildly successful in this endeavor. His work shines brightest when he discusses issues of epistemology,[2] which is a reoccurring theme throughout the work. Frank ultimately [...]
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