A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO POST-MODERNISM Kevin Simington Postmodern thinking now permeates our culture. Truth is now relative. You can believe anything you like, and no one has the right to contradict you. A man can believe he is a woman. Homosexuals can believe they are married. A white woman can believe she is actually black …
TRUTH AND BEAUTY (Part II) Kevin Simington In “Truth and Beauty, Part I”, I examined the descent into chaos and ugliness in art and architecture, resulting from the post-modern rejection of the absolute truth. When the precise mathematical ratios of balance, perspective and symmetry, occurring ubiquitously within nature, are spurned, the result is ugliness. Music …
TRUTH AND BEAUTY (Part I) Kevin Simington A very wise friend, Ken Collins, has written a brilliant exposition of the relationship between truth and beauty in art, architecture and engineering[1]. In a far more articulate manner than I could aspire to, he points out that beauty is not merely “in the eye of the beholder”; …
THE CHALLENGE OF POSTMODERNISM Kevin Simington The recent Australian plebiscite vote on same–sex marriage raised some interesting issues. The result (nearly 62% in favour) was not surprising, given the pre-polling surveys. The debate leading up to the vote, however, revealed how deeply postmodern philosophy has become ingrained in the national psyche. Postmodernism has three fundamental …
WHAT HAPPENED TO TOLERANCE? We seem to have changed the definition of the word. Tolerance used to mean extending courtesy and respect to those who hold a different viewpoint to you. It meant acknowledging that different views exist, and not demanding that everyone conform to your view. But in the current same-sex marriage debate, the word …