Christian Faith In A Postmodern World
...there have been many schools of thought concerning the existence of God and faith in his true nature. We find that from the time before Christ came to earth as God incarnate, up to the 1200s, science and physics were not major players during this age known as the "pre-modern" era. The "pre-modern" era encompassed the viewpoint that every object has a reality, called the absolute. People and all things made were considered particulars in which was seen as a shadow of the absolute, and that reason plus logic is what was required to reach the absolute good.
The Renaissance centuries, highlighted in the 1700s during the period of the Enlightenment period, brought about a paradigm shift towards the physical world. Allen asserts that a major project of the Enlightenment period was to base traditional morality and society on reason, the natural revelation given to man, and not on religion. This period, termed modernism, was influenced by Aristotle's philosophy, and from that school of thought emerged the conflict between Christianity and science. Major events that tipped off this battle were the combinations of Copernicus' findings that the earth revolved around the sun, the trial of Galileo, and the French's social critics who used the trial as a means of propaganda to portray Christianity negatively. The age of Enlightenment brought out the likes of Sir Isaac Newton, regarded as the father of physics due to his discovering the laws of motion, philosophers, and another controversial figure, Charles Darwin, whose book, "The Origin of Species" is the reason why we see on some cars those Darwinism inscribed fish magnets being ate by the fish representing Christ and the Word.
The 1900s to the present is what we consider as the "post-modern period. Technology and science are both growing at an exponential rate, and so is the gap between Christian faith and...
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