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The Greatest Challenge

  • Semi-Technical
  • Os Guinness

What is the greatest challenge facing the church today? It is the challenge of modernity. Modernity's message is that no faith is needed in life. This article explains the difference between modernity and modernism, and then gives three ways in which modernity puts a challenge to the church.

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Postmodernism's Impact on Popular Culture

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  • Cornelis Pronk

Postmodernism is characterized by rejection of absolute truth and authority, truth is made subjective. How has this affected us? This article explains the process which led to modernism and postmodernism. It shows how postmodernism has impacted popular culture and how this has impacted the church in communicating the gospel.

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Road to Modernism: Signposts!

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  • Henry R. van Til

When believers settle for false peace, tolerance, and compromise, then they are on the path to embrace liberalism. How? When the church avoids controversy, it embraces modernism. 

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The Intermediate State

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  • David Engelsma

What happens between death and the resurrection? What happens when a Christian or an unbeliever dies? This article looks at the false teachings of naturalism, modernism, and soul sleep.

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Western Ideas

  • Semi-Technical
  • Calvin Kalsbeek

For Christians to understand their times, it is important to understand the history of ideas that shapes their culture. This article looks at premodernism, modernism, postmodernism.

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The Secularization of the West and the Rise of a New Morality

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  • R. Albert Mohler Jr.

How did we come to embrace secularism and sexual revolution as part of our culture? This article looks at the development from modernism to postmodernism and the impact they had on the nature of authority and morality.

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Postmodernism's Impact on Popular Culture

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  • Cornelis Pronk

This article details some of the features of postmodernism, which in many ways is a reaction to modernism. It describes how postmodernism impacts the communication of the gospel, and ends with a call for the church to discern the spirits.

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Church Controversies and the Culture Gap

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  • John L. van Popta

The shift from modernism to postmodernism has created a culture gap. This article shows how this culture gap is affecting the life of the church and how it can be addressed.

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Confounding the Postmodern Mind

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  • Gene Edward Veith

The author discusses the difficulties brought to the church in North America by both modernism and postmodernism. While the fundamentalists did well to stand well against modernists, the subsequent generation of fundamentalists and evangelical fundamentalists are giving in to the persuasions of postmodernism in very subtle ways. This has negatively affected the effectiveness of the gospel they preach.

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Holding the Line

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  • Darryl G. Hart

The article looks at the history of American Protestantism, especially from the 1920s to today. The main issue was how the churches coped with the influence of modernism (including Darwinianism).

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The Law of Life

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  • R. Albert Mohler Jr.

This article discusses the Pentateuch (or Law) from the perspective of modernism and post-modernism.

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