Comments on: Featured: PATRON SAINTS FOR POSTMODERNS by Chris Armstrong [Vol. 2, #46] http://erb.kingdomnow.org/featured-patron-saints-for-postmoderns-by-chris-armstrong-vol-2-46/ News and conversation on missional reading for church communities. The Podcast of the Englewood Review of Books http://www.englewoodreview.org/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:44:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ramonita Mcculough http://erb.kingdomnow.org/featured-patron-saints-for-postmoderns-by-chris-armstrong-vol-2-46/comment-page-1/#comment-8950 Ramonita Mcculough Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:59:13 +0000 http://erb.kingdomnow.org/?p=1091#comment-8950 Many thanks for the well-written article. I enjoyed reading it. You have a very well-designed site. Many thanks for the well-written article. I enjoyed reading it. You have a very well-designed site.

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]]> By: Austen Sandifer Williams http://erb.kingdomnow.org/featured-patron-saints-for-postmoderns-by-chris-armstrong-vol-2-46/comment-page-1/#comment-7006 Austen Sandifer Williams Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:36:43 +0000 http://erb.kingdomnow.org/?p=1091#comment-7006 Thank you for your generous reply, Chris. Your appreciation of my review is the highest compliment I can imagine. The tension between modernism and postmodernism is often palpable; it is something with which I also struggle. Hopefully, our next age will be one that melds the gifts of both. (Perhaps we will even settle on clear distinctions for familiar names verses titles! I am quite happy that you chose to use my familiar name here). I look forward to further discussions and future books. And, Susan, here's to being open to conflicted-ness. With sincerity and gratitude, Austen Thank you for your generous reply, Chris. Your appreciation of my review is the highest compliment I can imagine.

The tension between modernism and postmodernism is often palpable; it is something with which I also struggle. Hopefully, our next age will be one that melds the gifts of both. (Perhaps we will even settle on clear distinctions for familiar names verses titles! I am quite happy that you chose to use my familiar name here).

I look forward to further discussions and future books. And, Susan, here’s to being open to conflicted-ness.

With sincerity and gratitude,

Austen

]]> By: Chris Armstrong http://erb.kingdomnow.org/featured-patron-saints-for-postmoderns-by-chris-armstrong-vol-2-46/comment-page-1/#comment-6988 Chris Armstrong Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:12:42 +0000 http://erb.kingdomnow.org/?p=1091#comment-6988 Susan, I love your rule. I'm tempted to take it as my own. Certainly it puts us in good company, including such folks as Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Barth, and even the evangelical ministers John Newton and Charles Simeon from my book. All of those folks were willing to let the paradoxes of the Bible stand as paradoxes--indigestible though they have been for "moderns." And yes, I also think postmodernism contains much from modernism. But maybe one has to be born in 1963 to really "get" this paradoxical mode of thinking and living :) Peace, Chris Susan,

I love your rule. I’m tempted to take it as my own. Certainly it puts us in good company, including such folks as Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Barth, and even the evangelical ministers John Newton and Charles Simeon from my book. All of those folks were willing to let the paradoxes of the Bible stand as paradoxes–indigestible though they have been for “moderns.” And yes, I also think postmodernism contains much from modernism.

But maybe one has to be born in 1963 to really “get” this paradoxical mode of thinking and living :)

Peace,
Chris

]]> By: Susan Adams http://erb.kingdomnow.org/featured-patron-saints-for-postmoderns-by-chris-armstrong-vol-2-46/comment-page-1/#comment-6949 Susan Adams Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:01:08 +0000 http://erb.kingdomnow.org/?p=1091#comment-6949 I was delighted to see Chris Armstrong's posting at the end of the review and she has concluded, like I have, that her writing reveals that she is somewhere on the continuum between modern and postmodern, as most of us are. A mentor of mine is fond of saying that it is called POSTmodern because of the lingering vestiges of modernism; otherwise it would have been called something else completely. I sympathize because I also was born in the very interstice:1963. I have a big rule I have lived by since turning 40: I am allowed to be as conflicted as I like. How postmodern is that!? Peace to you all, Susan I was delighted to see Chris Armstrong’s posting at the end of the review and she has concluded, like I have, that her writing reveals that she is somewhere on the continuum between modern and postmodern, as most of us are. A mentor of mine is fond of saying that it is called POSTmodern because of the lingering vestiges of modernism; otherwise it would have been called something else completely. I sympathize because I also was born in the very interstice:1963. I have a big rule I have lived by since turning 40: I am allowed to be as conflicted as I like. How postmodern is that!?
Peace to you all,
Susan

]]> By: Chris Armstrong http://erb.kingdomnow.org/featured-patron-saints-for-postmoderns-by-chris-armstrong-vol-2-46/comment-page-1/#comment-6900 Chris Armstrong Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:10:09 +0000 http://erb.kingdomnow.org/?p=1091#comment-6900 Though I don't have time to respond in full right now, I wanted to say: THANK YOU for a nuanced review. You have clearly read the book carefully and found both positive features and inconsistencies. A challenging, thoughtful review indeed--the greatest favor an author can receive. I look forward to re-reading it and processing it, and maybe dialoguing with you further, Austen. (In addressing you here at the end of my note, I struggled over whether to go with the postmodern freedom to use first names or the more formal modern insistence on last names. Oh what challenging times we live in! Notice I am not, however, afraid to end sentences with prepositions, even though I've worked as a book and magazine editor. Perhaps I'm more postmodern than I think. Or perhaps I'm just terminally conflicted, having been born, I am told, in the interstice between the boomers and gen x (1963).) Peace, Chris Armstrong Bethel Seminary Though I don’t have time to respond in full right now, I wanted to say: THANK YOU for a nuanced review. You have clearly read the book carefully and found both positive features and inconsistencies. A challenging, thoughtful review indeed–the greatest favor an author can receive. I look forward to re-reading it and processing it, and maybe dialoguing with you further, Austen.

(In addressing you here at the end of my note, I struggled over whether to go with the postmodern freedom to use first names or the more formal modern insistence on last names. Oh what challenging times we live in! Notice I am not, however, afraid to end sentences with prepositions, even though I’ve worked as a book and magazine editor. Perhaps I’m more postmodern than I think. Or perhaps I’m just terminally conflicted, having been born, I am told, in the interstice between the boomers and gen x (1963).)

Peace,
Chris Armstrong
Bethel Seminary

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