Darkness At Noon: The Closing of the Postmodern Mind
Wednesday, December 07, 2005

The prophet Joel spoke of a day when the sun would be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood. This picture--besides giving us a glimpse of that terrible, coming Day of the Lord in judgment--is also a graphic picture of our own times. Even today, in the gathering clouds of our culture, we see darkness at noon.

One of the central realities of this darkness is the dawning of a post-Christian culture – and a central reality of our emerging culture is the closing of the postmodern mind. Something is happening to the worldview, the mentality, and the consciousness of this age. If we listen closely, we can hear something like the closing of a steel door -- a solemn, cataclysmic slamming of a door. We have been watching the postmodern mind in its development, and it is now well developed. Not only do we see the themes of postmodernity taking hold of the larger culture, but we understand the challenge this pattern of thinking poses to Christian truth and Christian truth-telling. Tolerance is perverted into a radical secularism that is anything but tolerant. There is little openness to truth, and growing hostility to truth claims. Indeed, the postmodern mind has a fanatical, if selective, dedication to moral relativism, and an understanding that truth has no objective or absolute basis whatsoever.

Continued from yesterday-excellent! Albert Mohler