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1 CURREN T TRENDS PARADIGMS LOST Good (and Bad) News for the Thoroughly Modern World Part One
2 New Deep by John Mayer I m so alive I m so enlightened I can barely survive A night in my mind I ve got a plan
3 I m gonna find out just how boring I am And have a good time Cause ever since I tried Trying not to find Every little meaning in my life
4 I ve been fine I ve been cool With my new golden rule Numb is the new deep Done with the old me And talk is the same cheap it s been
5 Is there a God? Why is he waiting? Don t you think of it odd When he knows my address?
6 And look at the stars Don t it remind you just how feeble we are? Well it used to, I guess Cause ever since I tried Trying not to find
7 Every little meaning in my life I ve been fine I ve been cool With my new golden rule
8 Numb is the new deep Done with the old me And talk is the same cheap it s been
9 Stop trying to figure it out Deep will only bring you down...
10 Numb is the new deep Done with the old me I m over the analyzing tonight
11 Millard Erickson Modern view of knowledge: certain objective good Postmodern view of knowledge: uncertain not objective not good
12 Modernism: Good News/Bad News
13 What is Modernism? Ancient, Medieval and Modern Thomas Oden asks is modernism a.. Time period (between the two walls )? A moral phenomenon? A worldview? All of the above!
14 God Theism Nature People God God God
15 God Deism Nature God People God
16 Modernism/Naturalism/Secularism God? Nature God? Individual God?
17 Modernism/Naturalism/Secularism God? Nature God? Mechanistic Individual God?
18 Modernism/Naturalism/Secularism God? Nature God? Mechanistic Materialistic Individual God?
19 Modernism/Naturalism/Secularism God? Nature God? Mechanistic Materialistic Individualistic Individual God?
20 God Nihilism Nature God Individual So what?!?!
21 Existentialism Individual Objective/Subjective
22 Post-Modernism? There is no truth, only perception
23 What is Modernism? The modern worldview: 1. The world is a machine (mechanistic) sense of control optimism pragmatism analytical thinking future orientation (e.g. planning, predicting)
24 What is Modernism? The modern worldview: 1. The world is a machine (mechanistic) measurability order fairness frankness luck
25 What is Modernism? The modern worldview: 2. Only matter matters (materialistic) seeing is believing focus on the physical and visible
26 What is Modernism? The modern worldview: 2. Only matter matters (materialistic) dualism evident in: spiritual vs. physical faith vs. science private vs. public
27 What is Modernism? The modern worldview: 2. Only matter matters (materialistic) accumulation of things athletic achievement physical beauty and prowess view of time
28 What is Modernism? The modern worldview: 3. I am alone (individualistic) self-reliance contractual groups private ownership future orientation privacy moral relativism
29 Hebrews 13:7-8 7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
30 2 Corinthians 10:5 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
31 CURREN T TRENDS PARADIGMS LOST Good (and Bad) News for the Thoroughly Post-Modern World Part Two
32 POSTMODERNISM I. What is postmodernism? Depends on who you ask! People use the term postmodern in different ways.
33 POSTMODERNISM I. What is postmodernism? A. Huston Smith s three types: 1. Minimal postmoderns: simply observe that there is no single worldview accepted by everyone. 2. Mainline postmoderns: believe no single worldview will ever be accepted by everyone again.
34 POSTMODERNISM I. What is postmodernism? A. Huston Smith s three types: 3. Hardcore postmoderns: say good riddance to the days when major worldviews prevailed because they oppressed people.
35 POSTMODERNISM I. What is postmodernism? A. Huston Smith B. Millard Erickson s soft and hard postmodernism: 1. soft: rejects the absoluteness of science (and other modern excesses) without denying the possibility of truth.
36 POSTMODERNISM I. What is postmodernism? A. Huston Smith B. Millard Erickson s soft and hard postmodernism: 2. hard: rejects any notion of truth, objectivity or rationality
37 POSTMODERNISM I. What is postmodernism? A. Huston Smith B. Millard Erickson C. Stanley Grenz: From Mr. Spock to Data
38 POSTMODERNISM I. What is postmodernism? A. Huston Smith B. Millard Erickson C. Stanley Grenz D. Walter Truett Anderson: From exoterica to esoterica
39 POSTMODERNISM EXOTERIC doctrinal objective external source of authority revelation exegesis outward symbols ESOTERIC experiential subjective internal source of authority mysticism feelings inward transformation
40 POSTMODERNISM EXOTERIC organizational structures attempts to order society worship as information Holy Spirit wrote the book ESOTERIC personal, individualistic makes no such attempt worship as celebration Holy Spirit still inspires
41 POSTMODERNISM I. What is postmodernism? A. Huston Smith B. Millard Erickson C. Stanley Grenz D. Walter Truett Anderson E. Monte Cox
42 POSTMODERNISM WEST v. EAST Mechanical Personal Material Spiritual Individual Communal
43 POSTMODERNISM MODERN Be rational, be in control. Plan ahead. Big and complex is good. POSTMODERN Be loose, even lose control. Focus on the here and now. Simplify. Minimize.
44 POSTMODERNISM MODERN We can do it. Be aggressive, aspire to greatness. Law and order. POSTMODERN Go with the flow. Why fight it? Chill. Spontaneity.
45 POSTMODERNISM II. What s driving it? A. Simplest answer? Dissatisfaction with modernity.
46 POSTMODERNISM II. What s driving it? B. Change in the way we view knowledge (Erickson): 1) For moderns, knowledge is certain, objective and inherently good. 2) For postmoderns, knowledge is NOT certain, NOT objective and NOT necessarily good.
47 POSTMODERNISM II. What s driving it? C. Cynicism about truth 1. Why ask why?
48 POSTMODERNISM II. What s driving it? C. Cynicism about truth 1. Why ask why? 2. Numb is the New Deep
49 POSTMODERNISM II. What s driving it? D. Four driving -isms: 1. Pluralism a. urbanization b. mass communication c. immigration d. increased mobility and exposure to others
50 POSTMODERNISM II. What s driving it? D. Four driving -isms: 1. Pluralism 2. Relativism
51 POSTMODERNISM II. What s driving it? 2. Relativism a. Three umpires: 1) There s balls and strikes and I call em the way they are. (naive realist)
52 POSTMODERNISM II. What s driving it? 2. Relativism a. Three umpires: 2) There s balls and strikes and I call em the way I see em. (perspectivalist or critical realist)
53 POSTMODERNISM II. What s driving it? 2. Relativism a. Three umpires: 3) There s balls and strikes, but they ain t nothin til I call em. (postmodernist or radical perspectivalist)
54 POSTMODERNISM There is no lighthouse keeper. There is no lighthouse. There is no dry land. There are only people living on rafts made from their own imaginations. And there is the sea. (Dominic Crossan)
55 POSTMODERNISM II. What s driving it? D. Four driving -isms: 1. Pluralism 2. Relativism 3. Individualism 4. Materialism
56 POSTMODERNISM III. Implications for spiritual formation A. Changes what it means to be spiritual. Spirituality can be customized from many options to suit one s own tastes.
57 POSTMODERNISM 1. Phil Jackson s Zen Christianity
58 POSTMODERNISM 1. Phil Jackson s Zen Christianity 2. JewBu
59 POSTMODERNISM 1. Phil Jackson s Zen Christianity 2. JewBu 3. Baha i
60 POSTMODERNISM 1. Phil Jackson s Zen Christianity 2. JewBu 3. Baha i 4. Oprah spirituality
61 POSTMODERNISM 1. Phil Jackson s Zen Christianity 2. JewBu 3. Baha i 4. Oprah spirituality 5. Eat, Pray, Love
62 POSTMODERNISM Self-identified spiritual but not religious rose from 24% in 2005 to 30% in 2009.
63 POSTMODERNISM The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in everything. G. K. Chesterton
64 POSTMODERNISM III. Implications for spiritual formation A. Changes what it means to be spiritual. B. Makes religious exclusivism (and evangelism) extremely unpopular. C. Frees us from modern excesses
65 POSTMODERNISM IV. Bridging the gap A. Must retool in light of these changes.
66 POSTMODERNISM IV. Bridging the gap A. Must retool in light of these changes. B. Must build bridges using the raw materials of postmodernism.
67 POSTMODERNISM: Good News/Bad News
68 POSTMODERNISM Humility... because We know in part We are messengers We follow Jesus Confidence... because We know in part We are messengers We follow Jesus
69 CURREN T TRENDS PARADIGMS LOST Making the Best of It Part Three
70 Jeremiah 29:11 11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
71 Jeremiah 29: This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 "Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.
72 Jeremiah 29: Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper." 8 Yes, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.
73 Jeremiah 29: They are prophesying lies to you in my name. I have not sent them," declares the LORD. 10 This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place.
74 Jeremiah 29:11 11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
75 MAKING THE BEST OF IT The relationship between Christ and Culture? Richard Niebuhr s (1951) classic categories: 1. Christ against culture. Christians should withdraw from society to avoid being tainted by it. 2. Christ of culture. Christians should adapt the church to the culture in which they live.
76 MAKING THE BEST OF IT The relationship between Christ and Culture? Richard Niebuhr s (1951) classic categories: 3. Christ above culture. God is neutral on culture ; Christians should embrace great diversity when it comes to Christian faith and practice.
77 MAKING THE BEST OF IT The relationship between Christ and Culture? Richard Niebuhr s (1951) classic categories: 4. Christ and culture in paradox. Christians must live in the tension between loyalty to Christ and conformity to culture.
78 MAKING THE BEST OF IT The relationship between Christ and Culture? Richard Niebuhr s (1951) classic categories: 5. Christ transforming culture. Christians live in the world to transform the culture.
79 MAKING THE BEST OF IT Is John Stackhouse, Jr. right? Is Christ and culture in paradox the best answer option? Can we only hope to make the best of it?
80 MAKING THE BEST OF IT Craig Van Gelder in Missiology (October 2002) on postmodern bridges and challenges...
81 MAKING THE BEST OF IT Postmodern bridges good news/bad news: 1. Spirituality a. Good news: now people take for granted the possibility of God or the supernatural b. Bad news: the relativistic, customized and personalized views of God.
82 MAKING THE BEST OF IT Postmodern bridges good news/bad news: 2. Community a. Good news: tapping into the desire among many to belong b. Bad news: to get past their objections to organized religion
83 MAKING THE BEST OF IT Postmodern bridges good news/bad news: 3. Story/Narrative a. Good news: to present the gospel as story, not just principles and/or rules b. Bad news: to not lose the truth in the midst of stories that all seem equally legitimate
84 MAKING THE BEST OF IT Postmodern bridges good news/bad news: 4. Preference for the experiential a. Good news: we do offer the possibility of an experiential encounter with the living God b. Bad news: experiential faith must be supported and sustained by an intellectual understanding of the faith
85 MAKING THE BEST OF IT Postmodern bridges good news/bad news: 5. Holism a. Good news: the gospel properly understood does present a holistic view of creation b. Bad news: presenting a Christian holism that takes sin seriously
86 MAKING THE BEST OF IT Postmodern bridges good news/bad news: 6. Individual preferences a. Good news: Christ can come into any and all contexts. b. Bad news: convincing people that the finite (God Incarnate as a Jew in ancient Palestine) can bear the infinite (the timeless message for all everywhere)
87 MAKING THE BEST OF IT Postmodern bridges good news/bad news: 7. Irony and Paradox a. Good news: You want irony? There s plenty of irony here! b. Bad news: Can lead to relativism
88 MAKING THE BEST OF IT Postmodern bridges good news/bad news: 8. Openness to different ways of knowing : a. Good news: God can and does reveal Himself through intuition and emotion. b. Bad news: Grounding intuition and emotion in the facts of the gospel and getting our own folks to embrace these other ways of knowing.
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