The most significant continuity is that both deny grace; in other words, both modernity and postmodernity are characterized by an idolatrous notion of self-sufficiency and a deep

cultural phenomena, for Schaeffer, are symptoms of philosophical shifts, not vice versa.

The primary responsibility of the church as witness, then, is not demonstration but rather proclamation—the kerygmatic vocation of proclaiming the Word made flesh rather than the thin realities of theism that a supposedly neutral reason yields.

What I, a sinner saved by grace, need is not so much answers as reformation of my will and heart.

Foucault

first,

suffering.”22The church doesn’t have an

my strategy is “Schaefferian” in the sense that my primary audience is not just philosophers but practitioners—more specifically, Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world, as well as searching inhabitants of this postmodern world. As such, these essays are not an academic project per se.

heart”—modern evangelicalism finds it hard to articulate just how or why the church has any role to play other than providing a place to fellowship with other individuals who have a private relationship with God.