1. Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your Hearts: Today’s Postmodern World Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your Hearts: Today’s Postmodern World William E. Brown, Ph.D. President President

14. Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your Hearts: Today’s Postmodern World Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your Hearts: Today’s Postmodern World William E. Brown, Ph.D. President President

15. “Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I’m not saying, ‘Go out and do drugs,’ but I always enjoyed them.” ~Robbie Williams Note: He gave up drugs and alcohol because they made him too fat. “Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I’m not saying, ‘Go out and do drugs,’ but I always enjoyed them.” ~Robbie Williams Note: He gave up drugs and alcohol because they made him too fat.

16. “It’s boring. We walked out after, like, one minute.” Paris Hilton on The Passion of the Christ (Entertainment Weekly, June 11, 2004)

17. “I guess it’s more comforting if you think there’s this Santa Claus in the sky who’s waiting to make us happy, or if we haven’t been good, he’s not going to give us any presents. God has no plan. It’s simpler to think that we’ll go to heaven or hell when we die. To me, that seems like a way to avoid living.” Dave Matthews (Rolling Stone, January 22, 2004)

18. POSTMODERNISM What is it?

19. POSTMODERNISM No Absolute Truth only MY truth No Past, no Future only NOW No Underlying Meaning or Purpose only MY Meaning and Purpose

20. CLASSIC MODERN POSTMODERN

21. CLASSIC KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY... RevelationReasonExperience 2000 BC – AD 1400

22. MODERN KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY... RevelationReasonExperience 1400 -1960

23. MODERN KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY... ReasonExperience

24. POSTMODERN KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY... ReasonExperience 1960 - Present

25. POSTMODERN KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY... Experience

26. Confronting the Postmodern Culture TRUTH??

27. TRUTH is to be... KNOWNJohn 8:32; 1 Timothy 2:4 UNDERSTOODColossians 1:6 OBEYED1 Peter 1:22 LOVED2 Thessalonians 2:10 BELIEVED1 Thessalonians 2:13 HANDLED CORRECTLY2 Timothy 2:15

28. TRUTH can be... Suppressed Romans 1:18 Exchanged for a lieRomans 1:25 Wandered away from2 Timothy 2:18 RejectedTitus 1:14; 2 Timothy 4:4 Opposed2 Timothy 3:8

29. Confronting the Postmodern Culture Always be ready to give an answer for the hope that is within you to everyone who asks. 1 Peter 3:15 Always be ready to give an answer for the hope that is within you to everyone who asks. 1 Peter 3:15

30. Evidence that demands a verdict?

31. A verdict that demands evidence?

32. Thinking with Our Eyes Deciding with Our Hearts: Today’s Postmodern Culture Thinking with Our Eyes Deciding with Our Hearts: Today’s Postmodern Culture William E. Brown, Ph.D. President President

35. “The cultural updwellings and wildness of the 60’s kicked out the props of a teetering moral structure, but the new house has not yet been built.” -Todd Gitlin Univ. of Col. Berekely Wilson Quarterly “America is waiting for a message of some sort or another.” -David Byrne & Brian Eno My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

36. “If Rock ‘n’ Roll didn’t invent American postmodernism, it knows the gal who did.” -Kevin Dettmar Clemson University Chronicle of Higher Education Pop culture

37. “I’d Rather Feel Bad than Not Feel Anything At All” -Lawrence Grossberg Enclitic 8

38. “Panic is the dominant mood of postmodern culture at the fin-de-millennium. As technological imperatives of postmodern science merge with the social demands of popular culture, ours is an age of both deep anxiety and giddy euphoria.” -Arthur Kroker, et al Social Problems technology

39. “Every interpreter is free to handle the text selectively, that is, to deconstruct it, and to refashion favored segments into fresh readings that reflect one’s own preferences without evident anchorage in the text.” -Carl F. H. Henry Postmodernism: The New Spectre? Literature (and biblical interpretation)

40. “The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural.... The fault line between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.” -Samuel P. Huntington Harvard University Foreign Affairs Socio/political