Driscoll on Postmodernity
Posted by nathan on 02 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: churches on the ball., thoughts on life.
I thought perhaps you might enjoy a pair of quote from Driscoll regarding postmodernism:
Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting somewhere only to die and fall off so that the new young stud can take his turn peddling and, like a fool, make pronouncements about his progress. We would be wise to see postmodernity as simply the new guy on the old bike and not mistake cultural change for kingdom progress. - Mark Driscoll, Radical Reformission, 161
Postmodern culture is not something we should ignore, oppose, or embrace; rather, it is simply another culture that we should seek to redeem and transform by the power of the gospel. Indeed, culture is an old whore, and modernity and postmodernity are simply her old and new dresses. - Mark Driscoll, Radical Reformission, 161
Your thoughts? Do you agree with Driscoll, or disagree? Why or why not? Does he have a point?
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on 02 Oct 2007 at 12:06 pm 1.
Todd said …
I absolutely agree. Many people who are studying culture (such as Ed Stetzer) are saying that postmodern culture is already dying. So to fight against it is fruitless, to accept it lacks innovation, but to ignore the impact of it is foolish.
While I absolutely agree with redeeming culture(s), my question is how? What do we as the church accept and reject in culture? And how do we proclaim the glory of God in the realm of culture? What questions should we be asking and which ones should be ignored because they go contrary to the way of Jesus (i.e. Mclaren and Bell)?
just some thoughts playing ping pong in my head…