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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 230.0904 EAN: 9780830818563 ISBN: 0830818561 Label: InterVarsity Press Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 250 Publication Date: 1995-06 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Studio: InterVarsity Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Here is the book for those who wonder what postmodernism is and how biblical Christians might best respond to its challenges. In this book the authors survey postmodern culture and philosophy, offering lucid explanations of such difficult theories as deconstruction. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Making the Bible safe for EisogesisThis book purports to be both a critique of Postmodern culture and a Biblical path into the future. In the end it is an almost total acceptance of the postmodern revolt against enlightenment rationalism, complete with the implication that the Christian church of the last few centuries is hopelessly absorbed into that "enlightenment project". While the authors do a bit of critique of the fringes of radical PM, they have totally woven themselves into the garment. True to the more radical ... Read More Rating:  - What is truth?To a certain extent, the title says it all. The truth is stranger than it used to be. Who would have ever guessed that there would be a book that takes both the postmodern intellectual paradigm and the evangelical sense of the Bible seriously? And yet, here it is. Perhaps this is a testament to both the resilency of the Bible in the face of even the most monumental of paradigm shifts in cultural and intellectual history, as well as an admission on the other hand that postmodernity is 'here to stay', ... Read More Rating:  - Authors Give Away Too MuchMiddleton and Walsh demonstrate a solid knowledge of the postmodern (poststructuralist) critique of truth. And they are correct is asserting that this critique must be dealt with as Christians, not dismissed. I would even join them in agreeing that truth, though it may exist, cannot be known without the uncertainty generated by our contextualized perspectives on truth. However, I disagree with the step that Middleton and Walsh take in casting the claims of Christianity as therefore preferable ... Read More Rating:  - A good start on postmodernismWalsh and Middleton, famed for their work on The Transforming Vision, have continued in their endeavor to wrestle with Christian faith in light of our present culture. By starting off with an excellent overview of how we came to be in the state we now know as "postmodernity", Walsh and Middleton write a scathing attack on modernity. The reader becomes relived when we can appreciate that in fact there are many good things to which we may bid farewell in modernity. The concept of the autonomous, ... Read More Rating: - The good old days were not that goodI loved reading this book. It begins with a review of modernity, and explains how it is based on "the progress myth." Essentially the notion that science will win out. It accepts the pitfals of this position and then develops the postmodern response. The authors then point out that postmodernity is also based on a flawed myth. Orthodox christianity is developed as an alternative- based on a true myth. Much better than a call to return to the good old days. 
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