A Primer on Postmodernism

I just finished reading "A Primer on Postmodernism" by Stanley J. Grenz. This was a good book. I would recommend the first 3 chapters and the last chapter to everyone. The rest of the chapters should only be read by someone who wants to go way way in depth into studying postmodernism. Let's just say that Grenz is thorough. It's too bad he died earlier this year because he wrote some pretty good books. Here's a teaser from the last chapter entitled "The Gospel and the Postmodern Context".

"As Christians we must stand against the postmodern rejection of the metanarrative. We simply do not share the despair over the loss of universality that leads to the radical skepticism of the emerging era. At the same time, we dare not allow our resounding "No!" to postmodernism at this central point to blind us to the validity of its critique of modernity. On the contrary, closer inspection of the phenomenon should convince us that we are in fundamental agreement with the postmodern rejection of the modern mind and its underlying Enlightenment epistemology."

Good stuff there, good stuff.