Worldview Consistency

When I took The Secret Message of Jesus back to my pastor I had a good chat with him about postmodernity. We agreed that postmoderns are here and that we need to find a workable apologetic for them because the stuff we learned in seminary doesn't work with postmoderns. They just don't care. He gave a great example to illustrate this.

He heard a radio show with a hardcore relativist defending his views. As the conversation progressed, the host challenged him with the fact that he had an inconsistent worldview since he could not say that anything was definitely right or wrong. He illustrated this by making the point that he could not say that Hitler's final solution was definitely wrong.

The guy thought about it for a few moments and then agreed. He decided that it was OK if he thought it was wrong, but no one else had to think that it was.

My pastor said that when he heard this he was practically shaking because this person should have had the foundations of his world rocked. However, he was find with the inconsistency. I remember explaining to a friend that all world religions are not the same and she said, "But that's what works for me." It's the same thing.

William Lane Craig's tactics aren't going to work with these people. Norm Geisler's aren't either. I'm not saying that McLaren has the solution, but what can you do if someone just doesn't care about reason? Does God give someone an appreciation for logical consistency as part of His supernatural work of election?

I'm not sure if Scripture addresses postmodernity directly other than to warn us that there will come a time when people will not stand for sound doctrine. It's good to have the warning, but what do we do then? It seems to me that we need an apologetic that will appeal to postmoderns. From what I understand, they care more about our stories than our doctrine. It's so hard for us moderns to wrap our minds around, but it's something we've got to deal with if we're going to evangelize to these people.