How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy and Art

By Crystal L. Downing

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 240 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: May 2006

ISBN-10: 0-8308-2758-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2758-9
IVP Order Code: 2758

Related Subjects

Postmodernism

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Part 1: Situating This Book
Introduction: Lining Up the Ducks: Christianity and Postmodernism
1. Posting (My) Life: Biographical Backgrounds

Part 2: From Modernism to Postmodernism
2. The Fall of the House of Usher: A History of Modernism
3. The Genius of (Post)Modernism: The Arts
4. The Antifoundational Foundations of Postmodernism

Part 3: Situating Influential Postmodern Thinkers
5. Deconstruction: The Posting of Structuralism
6. Building Truth: The Cultural Construction of Knowledge

Part 4: From Relativism to the Relating of Faith
7. The Haunting of Relativism
8. Identifying Truth: The Best and Worst of Postmodernism

Appendix: Influential Postmodern Theorists of the 1960s
Bibliography: Works that Aid (My) Understanding of Postmodernism
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index