Analysis Of Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against The Challenges Of Post Modernism

Originating from the Enlightenment, “the modernist vision presupposed the power of rationality to discover objective truth”(Groothuis, para. 7). Deconstructing such a definition, modernism believes that faith and reason cannot be adequately juxtaposed. Thus, modernism asserts that science and reason discover truth. Often purported as an extension of modernism, post-modernism flatly denies modernism's quest for truth. Groothuis, in his book, Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Post-Modernism comments that “’Truth’ [in the Post-Modern mindset] is considered to be an empty construct…rationality is dismissed as mere logocentrism…science is deemed domineering and oppressive and unable to discern objective truth” (para. 17). Therefore, post-modernism argues that truth is relative to the individual. Essentially, therefore, truth is what an individual deems best. …show more content…
The apostle John clearly attests such an idea (Jn. 1:14, 17; 5:33; 14:6). However, often, such a statement is dogmatically proclaimed without proper understanding. First, John tells the reader that “[in] the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (Jn. 1:1). Second, he later reveals that the “Word” is Christ (Jn. 1:16). Thus, if Christ is truth, and Christ is God, then God is truth. Therefore, establishing the framework by which Christ is truth, God’s word (the Bible) is truth. Addressing some of his followers, Jesus attests God’s word to be true by telling them, “[i]f you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (Jn.