The modern era put a heavy emphasis on objective reason as the surest guide to the truth, while postmodernists have argued that all truth is at least perspectival, if not actually relative. Schaeffer was peculiar in that he was in some ways a product of the Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason while at the same time critical of where Enlightenment reason had taken the western world. He anticipated the coming of postmodernism by demonstrating that it was impossible to live consistently according to