Mapping Postmodernism: A Survey of Christian Options
"Greer's map provides the educated Christian with a helpful orientation to locate the positions people have taken when postmodernism intersects the faith. He does this with a user-friendly grid that is neither simplistic nor in the academic stratosphere. And he explores this terrain as one who is on his own journey among Roman Catholics and Protestant fundamentalists. He rightly chastens conservatives and liberals alike for their reliance on modernity's promise of a universal human foundation upon which to anchor faith. He commends us to do what some folks have reminded us to do all along: to ground our faith in a relationship with the God revealed in Christ and alive in us through the Holy Spirit. This gives Greer a critical calm rather than a reactionary alarm that helps us to recognize the opportunities postmodernism affords the church to articulate her faith in fresh ways and the challenge postmodernism poses when it steers us toward 'radical relativism.' (Dennis Okholm, Professor of Theology, Azusa Pacific University)"Even at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many evangelicals remain unclear whatpostmodernismmeans and how it affects current theological dialogue. Greer adeptly navigates the terrain by defining terms, considering the effects of 'modern' concepts on theology, critically examining various types of theological 'realism' and ultimately pointing us to what he calls 'post-postmodernism.' (Bruce Ellis Benson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College, and author of Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida and Marion on Modern Idolatry (IVP))