From my college art class I remember postmodernism dealt with art and it was a new style that separated itself from modernism. This was pretty much all I knew before reading this chapter. Instead of relating it to art Cyzewski, the author, says it is the lens that we see God through. This philosophy defines on how we interrupt the Bible, how we think and make decisions as well as how we determine the truth. This requires us as Christians to have an awareness of our world not to be blind to how the devil works or what we believe in.
This to me makes perfect sense I feel so many times we see Christians who are protected too much. They go to Christian schools, live in surban neighborhoods and hang out with people from their church. By doing this …show more content…
This allows us to be open and an array of perspectives. These perspectives have changed over the time the way we view gays, women’s rights and African Americans. With out people speaking up to matters like these changes would not have happened. Cyzewski talks about diversity and to me all these different views create diversity.
Now how do these perspectives pertain to Christians? Well a great example that Cyzewski mentions is slavery. At one time this was acceptable and many Christians even owned slaves as well as presidents. Some of these were evened believed to be Christians like George Washington and John Adams.
Now compare that to today. Owning a slave of any race is not acceptable and any one with a brain in our society knows that but that was not the case back then. These perspectives can threaten us to keep us thinking about what we believe and if they are right. There is also an example of how it hurts what we believe in. For example pre-marital sex is wrong the Bible says it. In our society it is now seen as no big deal and everywhere you look is based around some sort of act of sex. Whether it is on TV, music, ads on the radio or in
This to me makes perfect sense I feel so many times we see Christians who are protected too much. They go to Christian schools, live in surban neighborhoods and hang out with people from their church. By doing this …show more content…
This allows us to be open and an array of perspectives. These perspectives have changed over the time the way we view gays, women’s rights and African Americans. With out people speaking up to matters like these changes would not have happened. Cyzewski talks about diversity and to me all these different views create diversity.
Now how do these perspectives pertain to Christians? Well a great example that Cyzewski mentions is slavery. At one time this was acceptable and many Christians even owned slaves as well as presidents. Some of these were evened believed to be Christians like George Washington and John Adams.
Now compare that to today. Owning a slave of any race is not acceptable and any one with a brain in our society knows that but that was not the case back then. These perspectives can threaten us to keep us thinking about what we believe and if they are right. There is also an example of how it hurts what we believe in. For example pre-marital sex is wrong the Bible says it. In our society it is now seen as no big deal and everywhere you look is based around some sort of act of sex. Whether it is on TV, music, ads on the radio or in