Thinking with Your EyesThinking with Your EyesDeciding with Your Hearts:Deciding with Your Hearts:Today’s Postmodern WorldToday’s Postmodern World

Thinking with Your EyesThinking with Your EyesDeciding with Your Hearts:Deciding with Your Hearts:Today’s Postmodern WorldToday’s Postmodern World

William E. Brown, Ph.D.William E. Brown, Ph.D.PresidentPresident

William E. Brown, Ph.D.William E. Brown, Ph.D.PresidentPresident

Thinking with Your EyesThinking with Your EyesDeciding with Your Hearts:Deciding with Your Hearts:Today’s Postmodern WorldToday’s Postmodern World

Thinking with Your EyesThinking with Your EyesDeciding with Your Hearts:Deciding with Your Hearts:Today’s Postmodern WorldToday’s Postmodern World

William E. Brown, Ph.D.William E. Brown, Ph.D.PresidentPresident

William E. Brown, Ph.D.William E. Brown, Ph.D.PresidentPresident

“Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs . . . I’m not saying, ‘Go out and do drugs,’ but I always enjoyed them.”

~Robbie Williams

Note: He gave up drugs and alcoholbecause they made him too fat.

“Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs . . . I’m not saying, ‘Go out and do drugs,’ but I always enjoyed them.”

~Robbie Williams

Note: He gave up drugs and alcoholbecause they made him too fat.

“It’s boring. We walked out after, like, one minute.”

Paris Hilton on The Passion of the Christ (Entertainment Weekly, June 11, 2004)

“I guess it’s more comforting if you think there’s this Santa Claus in the sky who’s waiting to make us happy, or if we haven’t been good, he’s not going to give us any presents. God has no plan. It’s simpler to think that we’ll go to heaven or hell when we die. To me, that seems like a way to avoid living.”

Dave Matthews (Rolling Stone, January 22, 2004)

POSTMODERNISMPOSTMODERNISM

What is it?What is it?What is it?What is it?

POSTMODERNISMPOSTMODERNISMNo Absolute TruthNo Absolute Truth

only only MY MY truthtruth

No Past, no FutureNo Past, no Futureonly only NOWNOW

No Underlying Meaning or PurposeNo Underlying Meaning or Purposeonly only MY MY Meaning and Meaning and PurposePurpose

CLASSICCLASSIC

MODERNMODERN

POSTMODERNPOSTMODERN

CLASSICCLASSICKNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH

DISCOVERED BY . . .

RevelationRevelationReasonReason

ExperienceExperience

2000 BC – AD 1400

MODERNMODERNKNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH

DISCOVERED BY . . .

RevelationRevelationReasonReason

ExperienceExperience

1400 -1960

MODERNMODERNKNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH

DISCOVERED BY . . .

ReasonReasonExperienceExperience

POSTMODERNPOSTMODERNKNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH

DISCOVERED BY . . .

ReasonReasonExperienceExperience

1960 - Present

POSTMODERNPOSTMODERNKNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH

DISCOVERED BY . . .

ExperienceExperience

Confronting the Postmodern Culture

TRUTH??

TRUTH is to be . . .

KNOWN John 8:32; 1 Timothy 2:4UNDERSTOOD Colossians 1:6OBEYED 1 Peter 1:22LOVED 2 Thessalonians 2:10BELIEVED 1 Thessalonians 2:13HANDLED CORRECTLY 2 Timothy 2:15

TRUTH can be . . .

Suppressed Romans 1:18Exchanged for a lie Romans 1:25Wandered away from 2 Timothy 2:18Rejected Titus 1:14; 2 Timothy 4:4Opposed 2 Timothy 3:8

Confronting the Postmodern CultureAlways be ready to give an answer for the hope that is within you to everyone who asks.

1 Peter 3:15

Always be ready to give an answer for the hope that is within you to everyone who asks.

1 Peter 3:15

Evidence that demands a verdict?

A verdict that demands evidence?

Thinking with Our EyesThinking with Our EyesDeciding with Our Hearts:Deciding with Our Hearts:

Today’s Postmodern CultureToday’s Postmodern Culture

Thinking with Our EyesThinking with Our EyesDeciding with Our Hearts:Deciding with Our Hearts:

Today’s Postmodern CultureToday’s Postmodern Culture

William E. Brown, Ph.D.William E. Brown, Ph.D.PresidentPresident

William E. Brown, Ph.D.William E. Brown, Ph.D.PresidentPresident