a fresh statement of redemption
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it is .. urgent and vital that we explore … the way in which, within our own very different culture, we can rightly reapproporiate [Paul's] gospel in the world of late modernity, postmodernity, post-colonialism, neo-imperialism, and other things that swirl around our heads at the start of the twenty-first century. I believe it is part of the task of the chruch today to accept the postmodern critique of modernity but ot insist that it is not the last word. Modernity stands accused of arrogance… Postmodernity … has made its point. But, despite the misplaced enthusiasm of some, postmodernity does not give us a new home, a place to stay. What it provides is a fresh statement of the Fall, which in Christian theology ought always to invite a fresh statement, in symbol and practice as well as word, of redemption. I believe that part of the task of the church in our own day is to pioneer a way through postmodernity and out the other side, not back to modernity in its various, even in its Christian guises, but into a new world, a new culture, which nobody else is shaping and which we have a chance to.
N.T. Wright in ‘Paul: Fresh Perspectives’
Tags: church, culture, postmodernism
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