Jesus After Modernity: A 21st-Century Critique of Our Modern Concept of Truth and the Truth of the Gospel

by James P. Danaher

We are now free to rethink our notion of truth in a way that is compatible with the things that Jesus said and did, and equally compatible with what we now know to be our access to truth given the limits of our human condition. This volume sets out to explore these issues in depth and examine what it might mean for us to speak of the truth of the Gospel in a twenty-first century context.

158 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2011

About the author

James P. Danaher is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department at Nyack College. He is the author of Eyes that See, Ears that Hear: Perceiving Jesus in a Postmodern Context (2006), and Postmodern Christianity and the Reconstruction of the Christian Mind (2001).

Reviews

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In this book, James P. Danaher exposes the truncated notion of truth that the modern mind espouses.

The modern mind is half-witted, favoring analysis over synthesis. While purporting to be objective, certain, and precise, it deceives itself in regard to so-called objectivity and overreaches in its attempt to explain the whole of life, instead offering only a truncated notion of truth. Life is full of ambiguities and contradictions. No matter what we do, we cannot “eliminate the human context in which we must always perceive the truth” (19).

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