“here is the nub of the issue between Christianity and postmodernism: what is freedom?” — Heath White Christianity Copy Share Image
“Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.” — Heath White Books 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… — Heath White Culture Copy Share Image
“Faith in the power of reason is the central pillar of the modern worldview.” — Heath White Faith 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,… — Heath White Bible 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… — Heath White Christian 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… — Heath White Buddhism 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… — Heath White History 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 History 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… — Heath White Les mis Copy Share Image
“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,” — Heath White History Copy Share Image
“Christians ought to be troubled by the postmodern rejection of moral absolutes. But in responding, the first task is to get our… — Heath White Christianity 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 Faith Copy Share Image
“Christianity is a religion of great hope. Yet for some reason, I can remember many sermons on faith and many on love,… — Heath White Christianity Copy Share Image
“we could say that, since this reaction is a matter of degree, your worldview is modern insofar as experiencing other cultures in… — 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 Human life Copy Share Image
“The general idea of universal moral norms is ancient, widespread, and endorsed by practically every moral authority up until late in the… — Heath White Character 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 Creative thinking Copy Share Image
“Twenty-first-century American churches have a history and an institutional culture rooted in the modern or premodern periods—the twentieth, nineteenth, or earlier centuries” — Heath White History Copy Share Image
“For postmoderns, no knowledge is fully reliable and no concepts are absolutely indispensable.” — Heath White Knowledge 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 Confidence Copy Share Image
“Metanarratives give meaning to individual events, tying them together in the broadest possible fashion. They help structure all of life around a… — Heath White History Copy Share Image
“cultural traditions are instructions for living: when we violate them, for instance by not having a Christmas tree or by serving pie… — Heath White Birthday party 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 History Copy Share Image
