UTT Chapter 07 Test

According to Postmodernism, which of the following affect how we see the world?

• Culture

• Language

• Gender

According to Postmodernism, truth is what?

• Objective

• Universal

• Neutral

• Socially constructed

Postmodernists claim that we can have what type of access to reality?

• Unmediated

• Direct

• Immediate

• None

Which Postmodernist philosopher famously pronounced, “God is dead”?

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Michel Foucault

• Walter Truett Anderson

• Jean-Francis Lyotard

• Richard Rorty

According to Postmodernism, language functions as what?

• A means for describing objective reality

• A method for communicating truth

• A tool of power and manipulation

Postmodernists doubt the objectivity of which of the following disciplines?

• Evolutionary biology

• Science

• Math

According to Postmodernism, human beings are what?

• Bodies and souls

• Persons

• Centralized personalities

• Social constructs

According to Postmodernism, the problem with humanity is our adherence to what?

• Sophism

• Nihilism

• Metanarratives

Postmodernism rejects the metanarrative inherent in which of the following worldviews?

• New Spirituality

• Secularism

• Marxism

On what point can Christians and Postmodernists find some agreement?

• Our culture plays a role in shaping who we are.

• Our experiences contribute to who we are.

• Language can be used to manipulate people.