{"id":115,"date":"2012-12-03T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/truth-decay-by-douglas-groothuis\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T03:01:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T08:01:49","slug":"truth-decay-by-douglas-groothuis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Truth Decay by Douglas Groothuis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Truth Decay: Defending Christianity against the Challenges of Postmodernism<\/span><\/div>\n
by Douglas Groothuis<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cA venerable old Russian proverb claims that \u2018one word of truth outweighs the world.\u2019\u201d (Kindle Location 101).<\/span><\/div>\n
Point: Postmodernism has corrupted any foundation upon which man may stand. This must be evaluated, critiqued, and challenged in a thoughtful and biblical manner.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Path:\u00a0 Groothuis leads the reader through the barren landscape of modernism to postmodernism. He stops along the way to explain a biblical view of truth and how postmodernism has undermined it. He writes on ethics, race, gender, and beauty. He concludes with a short appendix on the medium of television.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sources: Francis Schaeffer, C. S. Lewis, etc. He challenges men such as Rorty and others.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Agreement: Groothuis offers a helpful overview of the postmodern mindset and the predicament that thinkers find themselves in today. He references a wide group of authors and intellectuals, and helps to categorize their ideologies.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Disagreement: I would have liked to see more interaction with the afore mentioned authors. He quotes others, but does not spend much time wrestling with their ideas. This leads to a second frustration, that of the plethora of quoted material. One gets a sense of what Groothuis thinks, but must read between the \u201cquoted\u201d lines.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Personal App: There is a proper way to evaluate, critique, and challenge the postmodern worldview – it is through the base of Scripture.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Favorite Quote: \u201cIf there is no beauty beyond the eye of the beholder, art becomes merely a tool for social influence, political power and personal expression; the category of obscenity is as obsolete as the ideal of beauty.\u201d (Kindle Locations 200-201).<\/span><\/div>\n
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Stars: 3.5 out of 5<\/span><\/div>\n
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It would be worth another read and I would recommend it.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Truth Decay: Defending Christianity against the Challenges of Postmodernism by Douglas Groothuis \u201cA venerable old Russian proverb claims that \u2018one word of truth outweighs the world.\u2019\u201d (Kindle Location 101). Point: Postmodernism has corrupted any foundation upon which man may stand. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-quite-a-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-1R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7074,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/7074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}