and Pastor Mark said something about the dangers of post-modernism. Me being the over-contemplative sort of dude I am thought about it for the next half hour and ended up sending him a an email full of questions and thoughts.
Now I don't know what to do with it...its just been sitting in my head. I am going to have coffee with him tomorrow to chit-chat about some of the stuff (or maybe we will just talk normally - which would be good too) but I figured I would throw it out there. So...here are my loaded questions.
Pastor Mark
---Near the end of the sermon you said that we need to use
> discernment, listen to scriptures, be obedient to them and constantly
> be searching for God's will -> live a life focused on Jesus Christ. You
> also said to be careful about the dangers of post-modernism, to which
> can be taken a variety of ways, yet I think we must be careful of
> making that word Taboo. My question was this:
>
-What can we learn from post-modernism?
-If we need to constantly be searching and obedient to Christ in the
> scriptures why do we act/think we have it all figured out?
> -Here is an example....we think in metaphysical terms of man. ie:
> Being...essence -> complete comprehension of each other...we are
> "whole people" in Dordt terms, but in reality.... not to each other, only to
> God.
or Normative Christians...though we might not explicitly say it,
> we act it out everyday. Think about a prisoner who became a converted
> Christian coming to our church in ragity clothes and little knowledge of
> the scriptures. Or even a person in there mid 20's who grew up around
> here who has different thoughts about Christianity...such as fitting in
> to a normative idea of how Christians look or the places go. (sorry
> these are pretty general, and you could tear them apart. But I
> think you know what I am getting at)
>
-Also, understanding that these (though I haven't named many)
> metaphysical/greek thoughts are a product of history. ie: some of the
> main church fathers were greek philosophers who became apologists and
> defended/defined Christianity in greek Philosphical terms. I would
> never have thought of that except that I wrote a major paper on it and
> found it almost souring that I could be so convinced that my
> CRC/reformed/western idea of Christianity had the "right" answers, or at
> least the ones that made sense to my experience and knowledge. I have
> grown up here...so I suppose that makes sense.
> *by no means am i saying it is relative...its not. Love God Love
> neighbor....wisdom is fear of the Lord...Jesus died for my sins...He is
> the only way to salvation, are good examples of Biblical Truths.
> -but do you know what I mean when I say its easy to discard
> post-modernism when we might actually be able to learn from some of the
> ideas?
> I also have some questions about what you think on conceptual
> idolatry and denominationalism, but I will spare you for now.
So there it was...my gibberish. What do you think?
2 comments:
So what is it that you think we should learn from postmodernism? Is it that we shouldn't think that we necessarily have everything figured out?
Also, out of my own curiosity, which church fathers were Greek philosphers?
Just to clarify my last question: I know that many of the church fathers would have read the Greek philosophers, but I was wondering which ones actually were Greek philosophers. See you tomorrow at graduation! (Congrats!)
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