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Postmodern Christianity

Postmodern Christianity may be described as a Christian reaction to and assimilation of postmodernism. It emphasizes the otherness and incomprehensibility of God. Paying close attention to the age-old philosophical question of the relationship of faith and reason, Postmodern Christianity usually thinks of the Christian faith as in some way transcending human reason, rather than being unreasonable, illogical, or absurd--on the one hand--or merely logical, on the other hand.

Jean-Luc Marion , a French Catholic scholar, and Merold Westphal , an American Presbyterian, are proponents of Christian postmodernism, the former in, for example, the book God Without Being and the latter, for example, in the book Overcoming onto-theology.

See also postmodernism, Christianity, and onto-theology .


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