Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age

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InterVarsity Press, 05 հնս, 1995 թ. - 250 էջ
  • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year

The carnivalesque, pluralistic culture in hich we live can be seen as a consequence of the breakdown of modernity (which touted itself as the "greatest show on earth"), combined with a recognition of the socially constructed character of reality.

Since the old construction has been discredited and is in a process of decomposition, the season is open on the construction of new realities which are produced with the speed and ease of temporary circus tents being raised. Far from witnessing the erosion or even eclipse of religious belief that the Enlightenment so confidently predicted, the eclipse of the Enlightenment has resulted in a veritable smorgasbord of religions and worldviews for our consumption.

So Richard Middleton and Brian Walsh colorfully describe our postmodern setting. In this book they survey postmodern culture and philosophy, offering lucid explanations of such difficult theories as deconstruction. They are sympathetic to the postmodern critique, yet believe that a gospel stripped of its modernist trappings speaks a radical word of hope and transformation to our chaotic culture.

The book for those who wonder what postmodernism is and how biblical Christians might best respond.

From inside the book

 

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Preface
4
2Reality Isnt What It Used to Be
28
5The Biblical Metanarrative
87
6The Empowered Self
108
7Reality Isnt What Its Meant to Be
143
8The Hope of Our Times
172
Notes
197
Subject Index
243
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Truth is Stranger Than it Used to be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age
J. Richard Middleton,Brian J. Walsh
Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 1995

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J. Richard Middleton is Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, New York.

Brian J. Walsh serves as the Christian Reformed Church chaplain to the University of Toronto. With Richard J. Middleton, he wrote The Transforming Vision and Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be (both IVP). He is also the author of Langdon Gilkey (University Press of America, 1992) and Subversive Christianity (Alta Vista College Press, 1994).

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ՎերնագիրTruth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age
AuthorsJ. Richard Middleton, Brian J. Walsh
ՀրատարակիչInterVarsity Press, 1995
ISBN0830818561, 9780830818563
Length250 էջ
  
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