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I’m more excited than Arnold Horshack. All of the conference messages from the 2006 Annual Desiring God Conference are available as free downloads here! The theme for this year’s conference (which I wish I’d gone to) was The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World. Thanks to the New Attitude blog for causing the hands up response!
Hmm. I wonder what my deal is with Welcome Back, Kotter these days…? Weird.
Provocative thought, and while part of me leans toward saying, “That’s exactly what that means,” the other part of me advises diplomacy. There are some genuine futurists – pretty heady folks out there in the Christian advance – who have taken the term postmodern and advanced it beyond what it was coined for in the 60s. In fact, the “postmodern” conversation in Christianity began way before it did in popular culture. It surfaced and was called liberalism in the late 1800s into the 1920s. The “fundamentalists” called themselves that as a form of distinctive pride; they felt they were establishing… Read more »
It’s quite interesting how the American Christian community in the past few years has suddenly awakened to and has began using the “used-to-be startling” buzzword – “postmodernism,” especially since postmodernism has been officially recognized since at least the 1960s. The movement is now considered dead in academia, though we are still seeing some of its effects in pop-culture. Does this mean that most Christian thinkers are “pop-culture” (read “low culture”) and simply reactive instead of dynamic? Tough question, I know.