After Postmodernism: Perspectivism, a Christian Epistemology of Love, and the Ideological Surround
- Volume
- Volume 32
- Issue
- Fall 2004
- Title
- After Postmodernism: Perspectivism, a Christian Epistemology of Love, and the Ideological Surround
- Abstract
Postmodernism liberates the integration of psychology and Christianity from the domination of modernism, but also leads to a vertiginous relativism. A movement beyond postmodernism seems essential. For Christians, such a movement might build upon the "future objectivity" of Friedrich Nietzsche's postmodern perspectivism. Writings of the French social theorist Rene Girard suggest how this "objectivity" might be assimilated within a Christian metanarrative about Truth. His theory more specifically implies that the Bible commands an epistemology of love that is non-authoritarian, critical, and integrative. Methods compatible with an epistemology of love have been developed within a ideological surround model of the relationship between psychology and religion. An epistemology of love supplies a metaperspective for seeing and then telling a coherent metanarrative about the challenges of integration after postmodernism.
- Pages
- 248 - 261
- Price
- Add to Cart $5.00