There’s a lot of loose talk abroad about how Christianity has been or should be affected by, understand, or resist “postmodernism.” More often than not people either don’t define what they mean by postmodernism, or they set up strawmen (e.g. postmodernism=there is no truth!!), or they uncritically accept that we live in a “postmodern” age which entails a massive overhaul in how Christianity should be understood.

For a sober take on the matter, you could do a lot worse than to check out this essay by philosopher Merold Westphal. Westphal actually engages the ideas of people like Heidegger and Lyotard and argues that classic Christianity (not just trendy “postmodern” theology) has the resources to meet many postmodern criticisms, and that postmodernism actually offers a valuable corrective to some of the problems embedded in modernity that Christians should appreciate.

(link via Peter Leithart)