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Interrogating the Emergent Church: II

Started by Drew Tatusko · 10 months ago

If we are to take a postmodern critique seriously, what does the church look like? Postmodernism does not really tell us and that is both its own shortcoming as a theoretical basis to launch our own reconstruction of ecclesiology and therefore the shortcoming of its continual reference among em ... Continue reading »

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  • Looney

    1 year ago

    It looks like I would need to do a lot of reading just to be partially conversant with you on this topic.

    The item that jumps out at me is the generalized criticism of meta-narratives. My understanding is that meta-narratives are the product of inductive reasoning, although they can be received from others, including God via revelation. Inductive reasoning is, however, the foundation of human intelligence. Certainly a particular meta-narrative can be problematic or applied beyond a reasonable scope, but a generalized dissing of meta-narratives because they are meta-narratives can only lead to intellectual dysfunction.
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  • Drew Tatusko

    1 year ago

    I think you are on track. The result for Lyotard is paralogy which is essentially a way of reasoning that goes against the norms of a legitimated form of knowledge. But it is hard to discern exactly what this looks like other than incommensurability of competing rationalities. If it is not exactly dysfunctional, it seems counter productive.
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