Dr Don Carson

Speaker and Author

Understanding Postmodernism from a Confessional Stance

Introduction: The challenge of terminology

1 Historical overview: The centrality of epistemology

2 Premodernism

3 Modernism and its six defining characteristics
Beginning with the finite 'I'
Epistemological certainty is both desirable and attainable
Foundationalism
The focus on method
The assumption of 'a-historical universality'
The rise of philosophical naturalism

4 Postmodernism
Historical antecedents
Twentieth century contributions of Germans, French and Americans
The overthrow or the revision of the six characteristics of modernism

5. Correlatives of Postmodernism
6. The advantages of Postmodernism
7. The weaknesses and dangers of Postmodernism

© Dr Don Carson 2003