CRITICAL TOPICS
Postmodernism, in all actuality, doesn’t appear willing to eject truth as a supposition that is necessary for meaningful existence. It is the epistemological means whereby truth is acquired that is questioned. Rather than assuming that universal truths exist outside one-self that are determinative in nature, regardless of personal acknowledgement, the act of knowing is a method of subjective analysis to the modern postmodernist. Truth is only true if that which is pondered is received as such experientially. Suspicion is the operative mode concerning exterior compositions of reality. If the assumption is appropriately adaptable, that relevant truth becomes a self-existent constraint for the assumer’s consumptive use.
Thus, paganistic panentheism may coexist as a viable means along the religious matrix lines from which primitive tribalistic activities can be enjoined in the deconstruction of western religious persuasions, as a newly emerging reconstructed paradigm is formulated. Local narratives couple with intrinsically subjective biases as a hodgepodge narrational composite is put together. Premodernistic influences the techoncentric modality that humanity is constricted by in modern social structures. Story telling and projected enactments become means of efficient communication. Media dominates this terrain as premodern imaginations are transformed into visibly acquirable demonstrations that enact strong emotional allegiances. The personal epic of Star Wars, X-Men and Spiderman eloquently assess the need to assert personal value superimposed over impersonal technology. In the mythical world of imagination formulated via the techno-centric methods of narrative, mankind is the master of his domain.
Skeptical suspicion regarding reasoned aducements that have proven to be forces that subjugate the individual’s ability to evaluate and becomes a critical point of concern for the Christian apologist and postmodern thought procedures. Guilt inducement over abusive behavior is an important linguistical topic for communal harmonists. The difficulties of oppression and forced servitude, coupled with arbitrary impositions of truths posits in the past, has created an atmosphere of hostility concerning the ideologies of domination, at least within the relativistic past history of the greater narrative, particularly with in the system of Laissez faire economically bound societies. Human experience indicates a necessary suspicion of motives and determinations within the political fields of motion. Roman Catholicism and Communism share much in common upon the condemnative ground in acts of atrocious behavior that is aversionary to communal sensibilities.
Humble acquiescence of causative guilt is a potent foil in the act of spiritual disarmament. Engaging those whose views are contrary to the classic Christian perspective is a bona fide pursuit of absolute importance, particularly for those engaged in the art of apologetics. Creating a climate for the introduction of biblical narratives that in turn create the supra narrative of Jesus Christ is the task of the modern revelator. It is only in the position of being found in a truly submissive state to the metanarratives focal point that communal harmony can be entered into. The desired end of the postmodernist is noble. The flaw exists in the starting point, not the stated goal necessarily. By rejecting the love of God that has been so effectively demonstrated and communicated through Jesus, tainted imprecations are allowed access into the thought process of the communicant.
Bridging the gap through actions of contrition, displayed power, and empowering others through servanthood, weaving a new web of communicative transience’s: all of these potential acts of power coalesce into actions that assist the apologeticist in the viable presentation of the Gospels worth and value to the postmodernist. The church is an effective community. The body concept of Pauline thought expresses both connectivity and interdependence realities that co-exist in a state of tension consecutively. Both are necessary postulations in postmodern thought that express themselves properly though adequate participation in a caring format that is best demonstrated through the body of Christ in a communal position of harmonious equilibrium.
