What is Postmodern Culture
From Byron Borger
Len Sweet in Soul Tsunami — we still recommend the audio tape versions of that thick book — spelled it out like this: the shift from modernity to postmodernity includes (among other things, perhaps more important things) a shift that he called EPIC. Where we were once essentially a print culture, oriented towards linear logic, we are now experiential learners. We now insist on being participatory; our world is increasingly visual and image-based; we are longing for community to replace the excessive individualism of the American way.This is a very different set of differences than ideas of authority and knowledge that I am typically consumed with. However these ideas have as much or more to say about how our churches and our learning should operate, and can probably be expressed with more confidence in traditional evangelical circles than notions of provisional or constructed knowledge.
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