tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281898744624594172.post7869625174171094560..comments2023-09-30T08:05:10.721-04:00Comments on And Yet It Moves: The Postmodern ChurchAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832931497605041428noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281898744624594172.post-71554747937160288322008-10-20T16:21:00.000-04:002008-10-20T16:21:00.000-04:00I love Miller's book too; I also like your term, p...I love Miller's book too; I also like your term, popmodern churches. The last hundred years really has seen some major shifts...from the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle to the anti-intellectualism (even if unrecognized) of postmodern philosophers. Hopefully in the next hundred years we can sort this out and take the good and true from each.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13832931497605041428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281898744624594172.post-34635256276287701852008-10-20T11:09:00.000-04:002008-10-20T11:09:00.000-04:00I should also note that I am in the midst of worki...I should also note that I am in the midst of working on an alternative designation for the churches you describe. I call them <I>popmodern</I>. <BR/><BR/>Postmodernity (not postmodernism, which is an art and literature movement) is a delightful fiction.<BR/><BR/>What we call postmodernity is really modernity without rationale or reason. It is the Enlightenment without the guiding lights. I believe it is a transitional idea, a fad of sociologists.<BR/><BR/>What is really happening in this "postmodern age" is that we are realizing that the "Modern Man" idea is bunk - that we are no better than the ancients, and that the "Modern Age" is just as violent, just as benighted as any age before it.<BR/><BR/>And in this, Modernity is the anomaly in the greater fabric of human history. The pursuit of quantifiable systems, a science for everything, and absolute answers for everything is an illusion.<BR/><BR/>My post on this concept:<BR/>http://unorthodoxfaith.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/modernity1/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281898744624594172.post-46487888513485163032008-10-19T22:11:00.000-04:002008-10-19T22:11:00.000-04:00I love Don Miller's book. It was catalytic for me....I love Don Miller's book. It was catalytic for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com