William Lane Craig on Postmodernism and Apologetics
"God Is Not Dead Yet", in Christianity Today (July, 2008).
However all this may be, some might think that the
resurgence of natural theology in our time is merely so much labor
lost. For don't we live in a postmodern culture in which appeals to
such apologetic arguments are no longer effective? Rational arguments
for the truth of theism are no longer supposed to work. Some Christians
therefore advise that we should simply share our narrative and invite
people to participate in it. This sort of thinking is guilty of a disastrous
misdiagnosis of contemporary culture. The idea that we live in a
postmodern culture is a myth. In fact, a postmodern culture is an
impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable. People are not
relativistic when it comes to matters of science, engineering, and
technology; rather, they are relativistic and pluralistic in matters of
religion and ethics. But, of course, that's not
postmodernism; that's modernism! That's just old-line verificationism,
which held that anything you can't prove with your five senses is a
matter of personal taste. We live in a culture that remains deeply
modernist.
Making the Case for Faith + Relativism & Zeitgeist

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