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| Postmodernisms | | Date Created: Sep 04, 2004, 10:47 PM |
| This week I've been reading The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology, ed. by Kevin Vanhoozer. It ought to be required reading in Reformed seminaries, if for no other reason than it will force students to think about Reformed systematic and confessional theology apart from modernist assumptions. What I mean is that students may learn that our own theology is in need of extrication from modernist entanglements. Now, of course, there's no essay in this book that addresses this particular problem. But I think I have noticed that the philosophical air that Reformed people breath is laced with more than a trace amount of modernism. After all, the Westminister Confession of Faith was written at the headwaters of the modern world. And most of the texts we use for systematics in our churches are stuffed with the hubris so characteristic of modernism. If you don't know what I am talking about, then read the book. |
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