Postmodernism is a form of intellectual pacifism...It is the easy, cowardly way out that removes the pressure to engage alternative conceptual schemes, to be different, to risk ridicule, to take a stand outside the gate. But it is precisely as disciples of Christ, even more, as officers in His army, that the pacifist way out is simply not an option. However comforting it may be, postmodernism is the cure that kills the patient, the military strategy that concedes defeat before the fist shot is fired...And it is an immoral, coward's way out that is not worthy of a movement born out of the martyrs' blood. -J.P. Moreland, "Truth, contemporary Philosophy, and the Postmodern Trun," plenary address to the Evangelical theological Society, November 2004 (h/t STR/Solid Ground)
8.06.2007
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Sup Nat, hope everything is going well out there. Now, time to rant.
Stuff like this is why I haven't been able to respect J.P. Moreland as a philosopher for some time now. Frankly, I can barely stomach to take anything coming out of Talbot even seriously anymore.
Forgot about the omni-category "post-modernism" - let's lump French post-structuralism in that group (defined geographically and by tradition, e.g., Derrida, Foucault) as well as journals like Social Text and critics like Stanley Fish. Are these scholars "cowardly" or "intellectual pacifists"? Not for a second, and shame on Moreland for implying so.
And who on earth takes the "correspondence theory of truth" seriously anymore? (from the linked address) Uff da.
Ok, end rant. Say hi to Brant for me - I love reading both your posts to keep up.
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