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The Death of Truth

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 ARE WE READY?

• The New Revolution
• The Challenge of Modernism
• The Challenge of Postmodernism
• Our Goal
• In Brief

CHAPTER 2 OUR OLD ANTAGONIST: MODERNISM

• Modernism and Postmodernism
• What Are Humans? --Modernism
• Are People Free and Autonomous? --Modernism
• Can People Be Reasonable? --Modernism
• Is Humanity Progressing? --Modernism
• In Brief:

CHAPTER 3 OUR NEW ANTAGONIST: POSTMODERNISM

• The Postmodern Reaction
• What are Humans? -- Postmodernism
• Why People Are Never Free and Autonomous
• Why People Are Never Objective and Rational
• How Language Makes Objectivity Impossible
• Why Semantics Guarantees Bias
• Why Syntax Guarantees Bias
• Language and Bias Within Our Own Culture
• Postmodernists and Progress
• Assessing Postmodernism
• Can We Trust Our Impressions?
• Postmodern Self-Defeat
• Is Language a Prison House?
• In Brief

CHAPTER 4 POSTMODERNISM AND "THE MYTH OF PROGRESS": TWO VISIONS

• Skeptical Postmodernism
• Affirmative Postmodernism
• Postmodern Culture
• In Brief

CHAPTER 5 THE POSTMODERN METHOD: HEALTH CARE

• Ayurvedic Medicine
• Therapeutic Touch
• Alternative Medicine and Postmodernism
• Postmodern Reality: A New Dark Age
• Rejection of the Medical Model
• Clinical and Laboratory Appraisal
• The Voice of the Marginalized
• Reliance on Experience
• Impact on the Health Care System
• Effect on Medical Ethics
• Spiritual Impact
• Explaining Reported Benefits
• Postmodern Barricades
• In Brief

CHAPTER 6 THE POSTMODERN METHOD: LITERATURE

• Key to Understanding Postmodernism
• The Grammatical-historical View of Literature
• The Postmodern View of Literature
• In Brief

CHAPTER 7 THE POSTMODERN METHOD: EDUCATION

• Gauging the Postmodern Shift
• Overview: What is Postmodern Education?
• Knowledge According to Modernists
• Postmodern Views of Knowledge
• Biblical Assessment
• Culture Under the Old Model
• Multicultural Education
• Culture in the Bible
• Modernist View of Values
• Postmodernism and Values
• Values From the Biblical Point of View
• Modernism and Human Nature
• Postmodernism and Human Nature
• Evaluation & Critique
• Human Nature
• Conclusion
• In Brief

CHAPTER 8 THE POSTMODERN METHOD: HISTORY

• The Changing Face of Historical Research
• Historical Research in the 20th Century
• The First Pillar: Marxism
• The Second Pillar: The Annales
• The Postmodern Fusion: Social and Cultural History
• The Postmodern Approach to History
• Finding Meaning in History
• In Brief

CHAPTER 9 THE POSTMODERN METHOD: PSYCHOTHERAPY

• Coping With Diversity
• Essential Postmodernism
• Postmodernism and Psychology
• Family Therapy
• Modern Vs. Postmodern Therapies
• Identity--How Postmodernists Lose the Self
• Loss of Self Is Not Self-Sacrifice
• Postmodernism: A Stealth Destroyer
• The Bible: Another Way
• Self-Serving Bias
• Biblical Truth
• In Brief

CHAPTER 10 THE POSTMODERN METHOD: LAW

• The Rule of Law
• Postmodern Legal Theory
• Postmodernism's Prominence In Legal Theory
• Origins of Postmodern Legal Theory
• The Principles of Critical Legal Studies
• Later Postmodernism Legal Thinkers
• Femme-Crits
• Race-Crits
• A Fundamental Challenge to The Legal Order
• Postmodern Legal Theory and Modern Society
• What We Need
• In Brief

CHAPTER 11 THE POSTMODERN METHOD: SCIENCE

• New Sciences Are Confusing
• Modernism
• Postmodernism and the Sciences
• The Progress of Science
• Can Observation Be Objective?
• How Valuable Is Reason In Discovering Truth?
• Do Scientists' Hypotheses Ruin Their Objectivity?
• Are the Assumptions of Science Obviously True?
• Quantum Physics and Scientific Mysticism
• Mysticism and Science in the Past
• Fritjof Capra and Friends
• Quantum Physics and Reality
• Where Postmodern Critics are Wrong
• Our Response
• In Brief

CHAPTER 12 THE POSTMODERN METHOD: RELIGION

• New Attitudes Toward Religion
• The First Cardinal Sin: Intolerance
• One Exception
• The Second Cardinal Sin: Objectivity in Religion
• Postmodernism and the Shift in American Religion
• Borrowing or Coincidence?
• Anti-rationalism in Religion
• From Worship of God to Worship of Self
• Self and Reality
• From Truth to Experience: Authority in Postmodern Religion
• In Brief

CHAPTER 13 THE POSTMODERN RELIGIOUS SHIFT: 5 CASE STUDIES

• Christianity as Gnosticism
• Assessment
• Religion as Myth
• Assessment
• Feminist Spirituality: Liberation From the Text
• Assessment
• Psycho-spirituality: John Bradshaw
• Assessment
• Ritual in Place of Truth: Frederick Turner
• Assessment
• The Big Picture
• In Brief

CHAPTER 14 EVANGELICAL IMPERATIVES

• The Lesson of Theological Liberalism
• Accommodation Temptation
• Evangelical and Postmodern Flirting
• Experience and Power in Christianity
• What is Right About Postmodernism?
• The Death of Truth
• Complaint 1: Truth is Not Dead
• Complaint 2: Reason is Not a Cultural Bias
• Why Does Truth Require Reason?
• Reason and Revelation
• Paul and reason
• Complaint 3: Culture Does Not "Construct" Truth or Reality
• Complaint 4: Language Can and Does Communicate Objective Truth
• Our Position
• In Brief

CHAPTER 15 PRACTICAL COMMUNICATION IDEAS

• Goose-Stepping on Campus
• Cross-Cultural Communication
• Bridging the Gap
• Optimism Lives
• Discovering presuppositions
• Guiding others into discovery
• Timing in Communication
• Legitimate Subjective Witness
• What is Love Bombing?
• Sailing Into the Future
• The Next Generation
• In Brief
• Conclusion

APPENDIX A

• The Postmodern Analytical Framework

GLOSSARY

INDEX

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