Ettersom the emergent church har kommet inn og presset på postmodernismen på både liturgi og teologi, var det vel bare snakk om tid før Apologetikk ble, nettopp, Apomogetikk. Ser du hvordan de har pressed in postmodernisme i ordet? Smart!
Resultatet blir da som følger:
Its a re-write on the shortened “pomo” for postmodernism, interplayed with apologetics to create a hybrid, and yes I just coined the term. Apomogetics doesn’t exist as of yet, but I’m realizing daily that it should, must, and will. Today modern apologists attack the philosophy of postmodernism on the grounds that it dissolves their absolute truths of science and mathematical certainty, but they fail to see the need to translate our defense of Christ into the new social era. Postmodernism is not a philosophy up for debate, it is a new wave of culture that is sweeping the world, and America is one of the last stops left on the tour.
Og da godtok vi plutselig samfunnets filosofi, og håper på at vi kan komme til Kristus ved å begynne på et filosofisk grunnlag som har en kjerne som benekter Han. Et filosofisk grunnlag som i sin perfekte form benekter sannhet, og dermed benekter han som er Sannhet. Og da blir det dermed like meningsløst å snakke om at man kjenner Sannheten, og han heter Jesus, som man prøver seg på her:
Recognizing this, I want to assemble interested Christians to prepare for the new challenge. Not to defend ourselves against postmodernism, as current apologists glibly do, but to prepare our apologetics for the new era in human thought and culture. No longer are people interested in the objective certainty of information, nor the Christian “world-view.” Because objectivity has been clothed in shame, and all “world-views” are seen as co-equal and impossibly self-sanctified. Therefore instead of the apologists who cry “we have Truth!” from the academy’s ivory tower, the thinkers of apomogetics may instead cry “we know Truth, and his name is Jesus” from the local pub. Seeing Jesus as Truth incarnate, instead of a person who exists inside of Truth.
Og dermed avføyer man også beviser i apologetikk, fordi istedet for å utfordre filosofien, så prøver man å spille med. Dårlig idé:
The question then is what does apologetics look like in the postmodern world? How do Christians prepare themselves to provide an answer for the faith within them? What are culture’s questions? Today less and less care whether or not the resurrection checks out by the dates of Paul’s letters, or whether God can be proven by the Kalam cosmological argument. In this emerging world ideas cannot only be true, they must also be meaningful.
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Apomogetics must begin to make a home in the terra nova of postmodernism, not continue in the pointless trend of trying to deny its currency. The body of Christ can survive the postmodern scalpel, and will perhaps even be the better for it. Maybe postmodernism removes the tumors that came with modern hyper-confidence, and the idolatry of human attainment of absolute truth. Maybe the church will find sand in its enlightenment foundation after it has been deconstructed. Whatever the case, the water is turning to wine, and new skins must be made ready to receive it.
Kristendom overlevde modernisme, fordi modernisme har i hvertfall et slags håp om å finne det som er virkelig sant, og da er i det minste et felles grunnlag der. Kristendom og postmodernisme kolliderer i et stort rabalder. Sannhet, mot ikke-sannhet. Hvis det er en skalpell som kristendommen ikke overlever, er det postmodernisme. Derfor må vi effektivt fjerne skalpellen, ikke la den prøve seg.
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