The Riddle Of Our Postmodern Culture

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By David L. Goetz on January 1, 2010 ,

What Is Postmodernism?

Should We Even Care?

Books trendmeisters, speakers on the pastoral circuit-all proclaim, prophetlike, "The culture we minister in has changed. we live in a postmodern world."

Uh, what's a postmodern world? is that where people read Wired, drink  double cappuccinos, and buy alternative rocker Alanis Morrissette's hot-selling CD?

Postmodernism is a throw-away word that means everything and nothing. J. I. Packer, theologian at Regent college says, "Postmodernism is a word that has never secured a dictionary definition. Different people use it in different ways."

Postmodernism is, in short, a hackneyed word ill need of definition...

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David L. Goetz

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David L. Goetz, Author, is a former editor for Leadership Journal, the leading periodical for pastors, and a former pastor. He writes for Christianity Today and was the general editor of The Pastor's Soul series, which was nominated for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's Gold Medallion Book Award in 2000. He is president of CZ Marketing, a brand and strategy firm serving the nonprofit sector. In addition to founding CZ, he has created three podcasts, including co-founding Journey Sixty6, an online learning and coaching community for writers. David is the author and co-author of several books including Death by Suburb, Leadership Devotions: Cultivating a Leader's Heart, and Deepening Your Conversation with God: The Life-Changing Power of Prayer.

 

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