“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism involves the loss of any hope that some larger-than-human force—be it God or History or Progress or Science or Reason—is going… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“postmoderns have lost faith in the idea of objective verification. Instead, they focus on the persuasive power of the stories we tell” — Heath White Copy Share Image
“In the eyes of postmoderns, then, modernism has failed, both as a prediction of progress and as a moral framework for culture.… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“attitudes were increasingly rejected; and now, in the twenty-first century, much of the energy and creative thinking in our culture operates off… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“Premoderns placed their trust in authority. Moderns lost their confidence in authority and placed it in human reason instead. Postmoderns kept the… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. It… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“here is the nub of the issue between Christianity and postmodernism: what is freedom?” — Heath White Copy Share Image
“Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.” — Heath White Copy Share Image
“Every institution is affected by the culture in which it lives and especially the culture in which it was born. That includes my church… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“Faith in the power of reason is the central pillar of the modern worldview.” — Heath White Copy Share Image
“We are born in both intellectual and moral darkness. We need the influence of the Holy Spirit—in the life of Jesus Christ, in the… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“the church is part of God’s plan for every Christian, that Christian selves are a work in progress that cannot be left to the… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for lack of… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“The history of the church has reflected the evolution from premodernism to modernism in many ways. One clear example lies in the changing structure… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism involves the loss of any hope that some larger-than-human force—be it God or History or Progress or Science or Reason—is going to come… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“The ways you and I conduct our Christian lives and the churches we attend are culturally influenced,” — Heath White Copy Share Image
“for instance, a sermon from Romans on the difference between the man under law and the man under grace may not make much impact,… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,” — Heath White Copy Share Image
