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The Emerging Church and It’s Self-Refuting Views
Christian Theology | September 1st 2008 by Neiswonger
This is a short look at the self-refuting nature of postmodernism and emerging church. read more
Inteligent inkonsekvens
SelahBlogg | September 1st 2008 by Daniel Blomqvist
Det finns en inneboende motsägelse i kreationism och ID-teori. Å ena sidan uppfattar man vetenskapen om ett hot mot religionen eftersom vetenskapliga rön står i konflikt med den fundamentalistiska bibeltolkningen. Man menar att om kristendomen ä read more
Fake Revelation in a Faux Greco-Roman Setting
Politeia | August 30th 2008 by Cassandra
Rational people ponder questions on the basis of logic, integrating concepts and facts with existing knowledge. To the person of reason reality exists independently from his mind. They look to the outside world as a source of information. After thor read more
OK, So Obama isn't a Muslim...But He May Be Postmodern
Our Sovereign Joy | August 29th 2008 by Scott
As I watched all of the speeches at the Democratic National Convention this week, I was amazed at the "religious" like atmosphere. It felt less like a political convention and more like a coronation. It is hard to remember an event during an election read more
Dark Knight(2008)
MoviePress | August 29th 2008
Dark Knight- Sober and somber! “He is the hero Gotham deserves. But not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero…He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector…a DARK KNIGHT” This is read more
Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark
Literary Kicks | August 27th 2008
Paul Auster’s new metafictional fable Man in the Dark is getting the usual highly mixed reactions. I’ve read it and I think it’s one of his most satisfying books in years. I’m a fan of classic 90s New York Trilogy-era Auster read more
Reviewing the Review: August 24 2008
Literary Kicks | August 24th 2008
Middle East politics takes the cover of this weekend’s New York Times Book Review. Kenneth Pollack, a so-called liberal intellectual from the Brookings Institution who urged the Bush administration to invade Iraq in 2002 before apologizing for read more
Man in the Dark.
Gary William Murning Online | August 24th 2008 by Gary William Murning
I have a love-hate relationship with the work of Paul Auster. Books like Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions and, most recently, The Brooklyn Follies — as patchy as they in places were — worked on a number of levels for me, pulling me int read more
Beyond Consensus
Postmodern Papist | August 23rd 2008 by Kyle R. Cupp
Here's the link to the latest post on my philosophy blog, in which I look briefly at whether consensus legitimizes knowledge, and tie together (in a loose knot) the thoughts of conservative columnist Joseph Sobran and postmodern philosopher Jean-Fran read more
Constructing a Rejection
Postmodern Papist | August 21st 2008 by Kyle R. Cupp
I'm not the only blogger these days posting on postmodernism and absolute truth. Dr. Bob of The Doctor Is In has an August 16th post up on what he sees as the anti-absolutism at the heart of postmodernism.Dr. Bob doesn't share my fondness for postmod read more
History and Absolute Truth
Postmodern Papist | August 20th 2008 by Kyle R. Cupp
Catholics commonly speak of absolute truth, truth that is one, eternal, that doesn’t change with time, place, language, or culture. Pope Benedict XVI called the idea that there is no absolute truth a crisis. In his encyclical letter Veritatis Spend read more
Is Salvation History a Metanarrative?
Postmodern Papist | August 17th 2008 by Kyle R. Cupp
Jean-François Lyotard characterized postmodernism as incredulity toward metanarratives - totalizing frameworks of knowledge. The label "postmodern papist" thus seems a contradiction, for it signifies my incredulity toward metanarratives, yet my bel read more
The War on Reality: the Return of the Evil Empire
Politeia | August 16th 2008 by Cassandra
If reason makes no sense to your argument as reality clearly shows otherwise, attack reason as pernicious and superficial, and persuade the world that reality doesn't exist. Communism was one of the main subjectivist ideologies that had their roots i read more
Postmodernist
Shirtlog.com tee blog about t-shirts | August 14th 2008 by Sjors
Currently I think post-modernism describes the moment that we found out we are stuck in modernism and there is no way out.. Though what do you think? read more
An Exhibition of Atrocities: J.G. Ballard on Mondo films
Ballardian | August 11th 2008
With thanks to Headpress books, here's an interview with JGB conducted by Mark Goodall in 2006 for his book Sweet & Savage: The World Through the Shockumentary Film Lens. The interview covers JGB's admiration for the Mondo Cane films of Gualtier read more
Our decision
Unusual Orthodoxy | August 9th 2008 by Shayaan
Is it always our decision who we are? After all, we cannot choose our race or gender. Or are these artificial social constructions that we can choose to disregard? But if we do treat them as artificial, are we not being postmodernist after all? read more
“The agenda of some professors”
Thinking Christian | August 7th 2008
Gene Edward Veith raises questions about a postmodernist who was, he says, at least honest about the implications of what he believed. Richard Rorty, who died not long ago, was a major postmodernist philosopher who reasoned that since we can never kn read more
Google is Searching for Jesus
Godgrown | August 7th 2008 by Mark
Google is up to its old tricks again. This time its Google Insights for Search, a nifty tool that reveals who is searching for what, where. I typed in “Jesus” and here are the results: (click to expand the image if its too small) El S read more
New Books Report: Uwem Akpan, Mickey Z, Daniel Grandbois
Literary Kicks | August 6th 2008
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan This story collection by a Jesuit priest from Nigeria and Zimbabwe is as focused on a single purpose as any recent work of fiction I can think of. The stories are about endangered children in Africa, and ne read more
Goldberg Blasts the PoMos
Postmodern Papist | August 5th 2008 by Kyle R. Cupp
“Philosophy is easy when you know nothing about it, isn't it?”That’s Andrew Sullivan’s pithy response to this column by Jonah Goldberg name-calling Senator Obama a postmodernist. A postmodernist? Them’s fightin’ words!Goldberg writes this read more
Nigel Bristlethwaite (Postmodern Man): His thoughts on Intelligen…
Forms Most Beautiful | August 5th 2008 by Peter D Buckland
The IDC's hermeneutic, ontological and pseudoscientific discourses, most notably Dembski's, shrouds its beinghood in the postmodern-dillemma-ridden communiques bound within discursive dialectical spaces wherein the heuristics fail to explicate their read more
Postmodern Politics: Individualistic or Relationship-Based?
The Cause of Liberty | August 4th 2008 by Stephen Palmer
By Mike Wilson Confidence in human institutions is fading. Modernism is slowly losing its foothold as many human beings are seeing that institutions are unable to deliver the happiness they claim to provide. In fact, many are beginning to see the aut read more
Friday Flash: A Portrait
PopSense | August 1st 2008 by Jeff L-E
Yes, that's right, another weekly feature from your friends at PopSense. Get excited.Friday Flash is a chance to give your brain a rest and enjoy some randomly placed images.If you have a funny image or really any (PG-rated) picture with something va read more
Does the Restoration Movement Matter? (5)
Igneous Quill | August 1st 2008 by Adam Gonnerman
Do you believe the Restoration Movement is just as valid in a postmodern environment as it was in the environment of the modern age? Why or why not?Yes. The problem is, I'm not entirely certain what "postmodern" really means. For a decade or more I read more
Ideologies and Metanarratives
Postmodern Papist | July 31st 2008 by Kyle R. Cupp
Jonathan Jones continues his series on the meaning of conservatism.I see an intriguing similarity between the conservative's distrust of ideologies and the postmodernist's incredulity towards meta-narratives -- particularly the totalizing narratives read more
Augustine Blog Conference
Postmodern Papist | July 31st 2008 by Kyle R. Cupp
Cynthia R. Nielsen of Per Caritatem brings Augustine into conversation with philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages, Reformation, Modernity, and Postmodernity. Cool. read more
Violence — Slavoj Žižek
Biblioklept | July 31st 2008 by ed biblioklept
Slavoj Žižek describes Violence as “six sideways glances” examining how our preoccupation with subjective violence (that is, the personal, material violence that we can see so easily in crime, racism, etc.) masks and occludes our unders read more
Is Postmodern Guy Detrimental to Healthy Personal Development?
Lo-Fi Tribe | July 26th 2008
The follow-up post regarding the Emergent Roadshow is in the works. The later part of my week is slow blogging, because I turn my complete attention towards my ministry responsibilities for the coming Sunday. So, the follow-up is coming, but it’ read more
The Dark (K)night of Postmodernist Crappola
Melody & the Pier to Forever | July 25th 2008 by Shawn Michel de Montaigne
Dark Knight is getting all the press these days. I've read in at least half a dozen publications that Heath Ledger will be a shoe-in for the Oscar; his performance as the Joker apparently (I've not seen the film) takes it to a level of chaotic evil t read more
Crucial Issues for Christians Seminar Lectures (MP3)
Christian Theology | July 23rd 2008 by Neiswonger
Below are the MP3 downloads of the lectures from the Crucial Issues for Christians Seminar presented by Trinity Law School and Trinity Graduate School. These lectures can be downloaded by right-clicking the link and selecting, “save target as.& read more
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