My friend Jason forwarded me
Feb 22, 2003 Uncategorized
My friend Jason forwarded me an interesting article. After reading it, I followed the rabbit trail to the responses of other writers. It is on this devilish word we are all so glad to hate “Postmodernism.”
First, I encourage you to read “Nomo Pomo, a Postmodern Rant” by Kevin Miller. Then read “Is Pomo Nomo” by Chris Seay. If you feel like doing neither, I’ll just give you my thoughts on this whole thing.
On one side of the fence:
We are called to be in the world, but not of it. I think that includes any world: African, Asian, Modern, Postmodern, Greek, Jewish, whatever. We are entering a different world. We must understand it (like Neo reading the code) and live in it, sharing Christ in a (*shudder*) relevant way.
On the other side of the fence:
We can easily embrace a cultural theory and elevate it above the Word of God. Worse even than not understanding our culture are those who accept its tenants without filtering them through the Word. I think there are great things we learned in the Modern era, just as there are great things to be learned from the medievel, classic, roman, etc eras. Unfortunately, we tend to like to demolish the old, good and all, as we build something new. I think there are definitely, in the words of Jesus, new treasures we can add to the old.
