Thinking with Your Eyes

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Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your
Hearts Todays Postmodern World
William E. Brown, Ph.D. President
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Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your
Hearts Todays Postmodern World
William E. Brown, Ph.D. President
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Some of the best times in my life happened
under the influence of drugs . . . Im not
saying, Go out and do drugs, but I always
enjoyed them. Robbie Williams Note He gave
up drugs and alcohol because they made him too
fat.
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Its boring. We walked out after, like, one
minute. Paris Hilton on The Passion of the
Christ (Entertainment Weekly, June 11, 2004)
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I guess its more comforting if you think
theres this Santa Claus in the sky whos waiting
to make us happy, or if we havent been good,
hes not going to give us any presents. God has
no plan. Its simpler to think that well go to
heaven or hell when we die. To me, that seems
like a way to avoid living. Dave Matthews
(Rolling Stone, January 22, 2004)
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POSTMODERNISM
What is it?
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POSTMODERNISM
No Absolute Truth
only MY truth
No Past, no Future
only NOW
No Underlying Meaning or Purpose
only MY Meaning and Purpose
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CLASSIC
The Road To Postmodernism
MODERN
POSTMODERN
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CLASSIC
KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY . . .
2000 BC AD 1400
Revelation Reason Experience
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MODERN
KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY . . .
1400 -1960
Revelation Reason Experience
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MODERN
KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY . . .
Reason Experience
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POSTMODERN
KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY . . .
1960 - Present
Reason Experience
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POSTMODERN
KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY . . .
Experience
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Confronting the Postmodern Culture
TRUTH??
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TRUTH is to be . . . KNOWN John 832 1
Timothy 24 UNDERSTOOD Colossians
16 OBEYED 1 Peter 122 LOVED 2
Thessalonians 210 BELIEVED 1 Thessalonians
213 HANDLED CORRECTLY 2 Timothy 215
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TRUTH can be . . . Suppressed Romans
118 Exchanged for a lie Romans 125 Wandered
away from 2 Timothy 218 Rejected Titus 114
2 Timothy 44 Opposed 2 Timothy 38
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Confronting the Postmodern Culture
Always be ready to give an answer for the hope
that is within you to everyone who asks. 1
Peter 315
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Evidence that demands a verdict?
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A verdict that demands evidence?
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Thinking with Our Eyes Deciding with Our
Hearts Todays Postmodern Culture
William E. Brown, Ph.D. President
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The cultural updwellings and wildness of the
60s kicked out the props of a teetering moral
structure, but the new house has not yet been
built. -Todd Gitlin Univ. of Col.
Berekely Wilson Quarterly
America is waiting for a message of some sort or
another. -David Byrne Brian Eno My
Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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Pop culture
If Rock n Roll didnt invent American
postmodernism, it knows the gal who
did. -Kevin Dettmar Clemson
University Chronicle of Higher Education
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Id Rather Feel Bad than Not Feel Anything At
All -Lawrence Grossberg Enclitic 8
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technology
Panic is the dominant mood of postmodern culture
at the fin-de-millennium. As technological
imperatives of postmodern science merge with
the social demands of popular culture, ours is
an age of both deep anxiety and giddy
euphoria. -Arthur Kroker, et al
Social Problems
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Literature (and biblical interpretation)
Every interpreter is free to handle the text
selectively, that is, to deconstruct it, and to
refashion favored segments into fresh readings
that reflect ones own preferences without
evident anchorage in the text . -Carl F. H.
Henry Postmodernism The New
Spectre?
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Socio/political
The great divisions among humankind and the
dominating source of conflict will be cultural.
. . . The fault line between civilizations will
be the battle lines of the future. -Samuel
P. Huntington Harvard University
Foreign Affairs