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Postmodern times : a Christian guide to contemporary thought and culture

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The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun. Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: Truth, meaning, and individual identity do not exist. These are social constructs. Human life has no special significance, no more value than animal or plant life. All social relationships, all institutions, all moral values are expressions and masks of the primal will to power. Alarmingly, these ideas have gripped the nation's universities, which turn out today's lawyers, judges, writers, journalists, teachers, and other culture-shapers. Through society's influences, postmodernist ideas have seeped into films, television, art, literature, politics; and, without his knowing it, into the head of the average person on the street. Christ has called us to proclaim the gospel to a culture grappling with postmodernism. We must understand our times. Then, through the power that Christ gives, we can counter the prevailing culture and proclaim His sufficiency to our society's very points of need.

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Series Title

TURNING POINT Christian Worldiew Series

Call Number

210P8466g

Publisher

Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books., 1994

Collation

256 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0891077685

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NONE

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Subject(s)

Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Contemporary, The
Christianity and culture
Christian sociology

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Statement of Responsibility

Gene Edward Veith, Jr.

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