Truth Claims and Postmodernity

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Truth Claims and Postmodernity

• This session looks at the cultural shifts
  currently at work within this country.
• We will examine Truth, Postmodern thought,
• and The Gods of the age

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Mission Theology.

• We study culture because
• Good missionaries do
• Because of the Incarnation
• Because it is professional
• Because we can see where God is at work

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Clash of cultures?

• 20 years ago..Communication was..

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Entertainment was
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In the news
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A family service meant
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Christendom and Modernity

• Since the conversion of Constantine
• Battle at Milvian Bridge
• At the heart of Empires

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During Christendom

• There is a centrality of religious buildings
• The Church is central to society and culture
• The Church is come to us
• Church and state

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Today

• Consumerism is God
• Image is everything, (text is nothing)
• Instant is too slow
• I re-invent myself daily

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Truth

• Gen Xers may remember that its out there
• The Matrix and truth
• Pilate and truth
• What is truth
• Generation Y