The Great Migraine of Modernity

Andrew Sandlin has prematurely welcomed me to the ranks of the Christian postmodernists. I am afraid he took my deal-busting adjective “theonomic” as something that would actually be welcomed in the ranks of those who are currently calling themselves Christian postmodernists, including one of the gentleman he cites. Of course it would never be accepted by them. They would all rather be dead in a ditch than to say that the Bible needs to be accepted as the universal authority and final arbiter over all interpretive communities. Andrew took my posts as instances of me reversing my position; it was actually an instance of me calling, pushing all my blue chips to the middle of the table, raising the stakes to 10 million “theonomic” dollars. I was not saying that I am a postmodernist like the current crop of zeistgeisters (McLaren, et al.), but rather that a robust embrace of the need for Christendom is the sine qua non of any genuine rejection of modernity. We have been urging a true rejection of modernity for many years; this is no reversal. I just want modernity replaced by the fulfillment of the Great Commission. I don’t want it replaced by anything constructed by the current weak sisters of Baker and Eerdmans. Any stated goal short of this is just one more throb in the great migraine of modernity.