omnibus 3 secondary postmodern times(fully solved)2023/2024

omnibus 3 secondary postmodern timesWhat unbiblical tenet of modernism is rejected by postmodernism? - correct answer Postmodernism rejects the idea that reason alone can lead man to truth. What is the main teaching of postmodernism? - correct answer There is no objective truth. What is the postmodern approach to history? - correct answer Postmodernists believe that it is impossible to objectively know what happened, and that it is up to us to construct narratives from our viewpoint. This leads to revisionist scholarships. What is the postmodern reaction to modernism's insistence on individualism? Which should the Church support? - correct answer Postmodernism insists that man is a collective body. The Church should affirm people's individuality, and also the realities of corporate living, especially in the Church itself. How did the environment come to be such an important issue to postmodernists? - correct answer Postmodernists deny that man is the center of all things, or that there can be a center. But with their insistence that we are a collective, not individuals, it made sense to incorporate man into the environment, as an animal. What is a short definition of humanism? - correct answer The belief that man is at the center of the world, autonomous and free from God's control How has the Church been affected by modernism's emphasis on individuality? - correct answer The Church emphasizes individual choice and "decisions for Christ." What should the Church's solution to individualism be? - correct answer an emphasis on the corporate nature of worship and the organic nature of the Church. What should the Church's response to postmodernism's denial that anything is the absolute center? - correct answer We should respond with how God is the absolute center of all things. What is one consequence of postmodernism's rejection of man as the center of everything, and its rejection of absolutes? - correct answer Without absolutes, it is acceptable to say that man is simply an animal, and elevate the environment as more important than man. How big was the number of people who believed the Bible was the Word of God and who did not believe in absolutes? - correct answer The number was high, meaning that many people believed inconsistent things. How did postmodernism react to modernism's dependence on man's reason to find objective truth? - correct answer It rejected it entirely, denying that man could find truth on his own. Unfortunately, it went further and denied that there was any objective truth to find. What is syncretism? What is relativism? - correct answer Syncretism is the practice of blending one or more beliefs into one and holding them all together. Relativism is the disbelief in absolute truth, meaning that all values are relative to the individual. We decide what is true for us. How should the Church engage culture? What metaphor can we use to describe the Church's approach to culture? - correct answer The Church should be ready to balance and correct culture's weaknesses. The Church should be like a thermostat, adjusting to meet the needs of the time, rather than joining culture and becoming like it. What are some aspects of postmodernism that the Church can take over and use? - correct answer Postmodernism's emphasis on group identity can easily be translated into a good emphasis on the corporate reality of the Church body. Christians can revel in new methods of creativity in the arts. Above all, we can fully support a rejection of pure rationalism as a guide for life. What was the primary focus of the postmodernists? - correct answer deconstructing truth claims, social institutions, and individual identity Why were the postmodernists doing this? - correct answer They believed that truth and meaning is constructed by society. To escape the oppressive institutions of the previous generation, they needed to deconstruct everything about it. What thing most distinguishes postmodernism from modernism? - correct answer its acceptance of disorder and chaos, rather than fighting for order and normality