Sometimes PoMo does make the wheels come off. In another thread, I mentioned a college friend;
Bill had been immursed in literature and theory longer and deeper than I ever could be. He absorbed and breathed it, while I was distracted more by eyestrain and having to look things up and rereread. But more troubling than Bill’s immursion was that he had no Christian mentor who could help him make sense of the truths he was confronted with, while still maintaining faith. The only Christian writers I’d found until recently avoided the whole matter of Postmodernism (or any critical theory) by condemning it as a package, rather than allowing themselves to be confronted by hard truths that should lead us to confession and repentence along with a deeper understanding of the world and what obedience to Jesus’ commands looks like. Helping students deal intellegently with PoMo would be so much more beneficial than merely labelig it “dangerous” “Here be dragons!” I’ll add, that the same is true for Marxist criticism, which does an outstanding job of highlighting oppressive systems in which Christians participate. If we (Christians) enter into the study of PoMo and other critical theories, seeking with the understanding that all truth is God’s truth, it’s still going to be a rough, bruising ride for sure, but the wheels don’t need to come off, even if you have a flat or two.