After Postmodernism: Perspectivism, a Christian Epistemology of Love, and the Ideological Surround
Postmodernism liberates the integration of psychology and Christianity from the domination of modernism, but also leads to a vertiginous relativism. A movement beyond postmodernism seems essential. For Christians, such a movement might build upon the “future objectivity” of Friedrich Nietzsche'...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
2004
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Journal of psychology and theology
Year: 2004, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 248-261 |
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| Summary: | Postmodernism liberates the integration of psychology and Christianity from the domination of modernism, but also leads to a vertiginous relativism. A movement beyond postmodernism seems essential. For Christians, such a movement might build upon the “future objectivity” of Friedrich Nietzsche's postmodern perspectivism. Writings of the French social theorist René Girard suggest how this “objectivity” might be assimilated within a Christian metanarrative about Truth. His theory more specifically implies that the Bible commands an epistemology of love that is non-authoritarian, critical, and integrative. Methods compatible with an epistemology of love have been developed within an ideological surround model of the relationship between psychology and religion. An epistemology of love supplies a metaperspective for seeing and then telling a coherent metanarrative about the challenges of integration after postmodernism. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-1162 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009164710403200309 |