Quotes by James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

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We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive fra — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
It is precisely this refusal of the Cartesian paradigm that characterizes Radical Orthodoxy, which seeks to reanimate th — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
But should we accept this negative view of power? Is power all bad? Specifically, can Christians share in this devaluati — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
The church's theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, th — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inv — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientif — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis fo — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative. — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church