(I Need Your Help)

I’ve been asked to talk to some clergy conferences on the differences
between modernism and postmodernism, and want to make it simple.
How about helping me complete this imaginary overhead projector
transparency? (As a pre-postmodernist I like things to be logical/understood
:-)!

(P.S. I know a little of the debate about whether ‘postmodernism’
ought to be regarded as a misnomer: Lyotard speaks of postmodernism
as the ‘acceleration of modernism’)

Truth is ‘given’/there are absolutes vs. All underlying premises are banished somewhere (Relativism reigns)

Individualism vs. The Group

Rationality/logic/scientism vs. Search for transcendent
/ resacralizing of nature

Media icons: The Brady Bunch
(Mike is the God-figure, sorting out good/evil) vs. The Simpsons: no
order, no one’s in charge. Main idea:
what’s right, now?

Best book/overviews (secular ??? ) (Christian ???)

etc. etc. etc.

Thanks/Shalom!

Rowland Croucher