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Teaching History | Modernism vs. Postmodernism

A Family Renewal Podcast with Israel Wayne

Teaching History Modernism vs. Postmodernism , First in a 5-Part Series

Tune into the Family Renewal podcast as Israel and Brook Wayne talk about teaching history in your homeschool. For additional podcasts by Brook & Israel Wayne, visit their podcast page.

Show Notes Outline // Teaching History Modernism vs. Postmodernism

a requested topic from listeners and readers
how do we teach history
modernist view of teaching history
postmodernist view of teaching history
we can’t teach everything pertaining to history
how do we determine what we teach

Learn more in the new book, Education: Does God Have an Opinion? A Biblical Apologetic for Christian Education & Homeschooling

From Israel Wayne, Christian Worldview

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Around the 1950s the seeds of Postmodernism began to grow. By the 1960s, America was witnessing a full-scale cultural revolution. In contrast to Modernism, its sociological step-child, Postmodernism is decentralized, relativistic, experiential, pluralistic and in many ways irrational. Again, it took 20 years, but soon enough Postmodernism found a foothold in many churches.

Today we find ourselves in a near civil war within the church. Postmodern Emergents are on one side facing off against died-in-the-wool traditional, institutional Fundamentalists on the other. The questions range from doctrine to style, with cultural presuppositions under-girding many of the arguments on both sides.

Culturally, I believe that September 11, 2001 has provided a sociological turning point into a new era. It has ushered in, in my opinion, the beginning of post-Postmodernism.