Postmodern delima

What follows is a comment I left on my friend, Anthony's, blog. There is a sharp distrust of what has become known as postmodern christianity. The delima lies in the naming of the response. Most people in think that postmoderninsm is a negative thing. Postmodern philosophy is an offshoot of nihilism, which is the child of naturalism. Since both of these worldviews denies absolute truth, people assume that postmodern christianity does the same. Postmodernism (the christian movement) is really a reaction to two things. It is the reaction to a growing postmodern world and a reaction to the modern interpretation of christianity.
As for its first underlying reaction, postmodern (emergent) christianity approaches the world of today and asks, "how can we engage a culture that has disengaged?" The second response is in the approach it takes. Realizing that the tools, methods, and traditions of modernism might not be the best answer for reaching a postmodern culture, postmodern chrisitanity attempts to deconstruct the religiosity of christianity to a culturally relevant faith.
This can be quite confusing to some. Postmodernism, the world view philosophy, is typically areligious, that is, not "anti-religious" but unreligious. There is no absolute truth, no moral measuring stick, no value or purpose to life. Whereas christianity's response to postmodernism insists that there is one absolute truth, God, and he has provided value, purpose, and morality. I plan to expound more on this topic later this week.

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