Truth has been replaced, especially among many academics, for politically empowering narrative. This kind of thinking is a the foundation of revisionist history, feminist critical method, and many current formulations of multiculturalism. Christians need to be respectful of what others believe and of the traditions and experiences that form those beliefs. Beliefs formed in the postmodern climate of openness and tolerance create a firewall against genuine and substantive dialogue about spiritual and moral truth. This has given rise to the accusation, even among liberal academics like Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, that a new McCarthyism pervades intellectual life today.
History offers sobering testimony to the high price such anti-rational dogmatism exacts.
To reach today's university student with the gospel and to raise up a new generation of Christian servants, Christian leaders on campus must understand postmodernism in both ideological and popular forms.