Ways of Thinking-part 3

 

Ways of Thinking-part 3

The conservative Christian has the tendency to conserve and preserve established institutions.  The thesis thinker must be careful to keep public worship from being morally damaged or destroyed.  Resist harmful change, not all change!  Resist worldliness and secularization of Christian music worship, not all change in musical worship style.

Postmodern means that which represents thinking that is a further development of the thinking of modern man.  The term “postmodern” when referring to time simply means postmodern times or after modern times.  Postmodernism refers to an ideology that is more advanced or liberal, if you will, than modernism.

Modernism is a worldview containing rationalism and humanism that disdained former orthodox ideologies.  For instance, modern man believes that there are aspects of Christianity that are not true, and that truth and morality are relative.  Now this modern thinking is thought to be old-fashioned since many postmodernists do not believe that we can “know” truth or reality.  Orthodox Christians and modernists “thought differently” about absolutes and truth.  Postmodernists have taken thought even farther by rejecting absolutes in music completely.  The fine arts are often a part of the Avant-guard.  Music and the fine arts in general often give us insight into where a particular culture is headed.