life-styles and language games which has renounced the nostalgic urge to totalise and legitimate itself.51 Although McGrath does not mention this, Eagleton’s review was critical of postmodernism.52 However, Eagleton’s description of postmodernism is apt; and it is not good news for Christian theology. The error of modernism was the construction of a false totality based on autonomous reasoning and humanistic utopianism that excluded divine revelation. The new error of postmodernism is the abandonment
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