THE METANARRATIVE OF CRUCIFIXION

Daniel Silliman has a new post up on defining Postmodern Christianity. I posted a comment attempting my own definition. I submitted it there, and copy it below, by way of sticking my neck out and inviting any who will to take a whack at it.

Thus:

I do not have a good understanding of postmodernism. Nor of the other philosophical systems you mention here.

What I would personally like to say about postmodernism, however, is this. It is the rebellion (initially instinctive) of a few deeply human souls against a philosophical slide into oblivion that began over a thousand years ago and which is now dancing in lockstep towards the brink of destruction with a post-Christian culture and society which began its own decomposition at least as long ago. The postmodernists deny that they are trapped in these systems--they deconstruct them, pick them to pieces, refuse to be taken in. They have a hatred of jargon, of the pat answer, even of philosophical systems. They fear to be trapped by words.

The postmodernist Christian, then, is the man overcome with yearning for the absolute encounter with God, wearied of all the dogmas and formulas and constraints which men have placed upon God for two thousand years, wishing only to encounter in person that simple, undefinable carpenter who WAS the Son of God, and willing to dive unhesitatingly into an oblivion free of definitions and guarantees and intellectual safeguards in the desperate hope that there, in the void devoid of reason, the Creator of reason will bear him up in His ineffable embrace.

But that's just what I WANT to see in postmodern Christianity. You tell me what's really there.