Crystal Downing is Professor of English and Film Studies, Messiah College. She is the author of Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers, and How Postmodernism Serves (my) Faith.
Understanding Postmodernism and Faith through the Arts
Speaker(s): Crystal Downing
Date: July 27 2011
Length: 77m42s
Product ID: RGDL4100W
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Description
Crystal Downing presents an informative introduction to postmodernism though a historical description of the faults inherent in much of modernist thinking. The main thrust of this lecture is to show that rather than being a threat to the Christian story, postmodernism validates the importance of differing stories in the search for relative truth.
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