Great share, Christy. Fwiw, this Reformed white male thinks you ámame some excellent points!
It saddens me that so many Reformed seem to think that ‘always reforming’ means adopting uncritically the beliefs of the Reformers and/or their cultural worldview, rather than allowing ourselves to be reshaped into the image of Christ by the Holy Spirit as we engage with God’s revelation of himself and his plan in the Bible.
I would argue only God can know absolute truth since only he can see reality from every perspective, standpoint, time, culture, etc. However, I think it is interesting that he chose to reveal himself to us through people who lived in a particular time and place and through the nuances of their languages and personalities. Rather than say… a bunch of culturally unbound, abstract propositional statements, though I suppose he could have done.
So if I understand the categories correctly Postmodernism doesn’t mean that ‘Jesus is Lord’ is any less true or any less morally binding (in a biblical sense)…. But it does mean we have to work harder to prove it, which I think is no bad things. And perhaps will allow Evangelicals and/or the Reformed to rely less on the power of their rhetoric and more on the power of the Spirit.
Welcome any feedback, especially if I’ve misunderstood you.