Monday Class February 18th

I think that it's important after listening to the lecture today to understand that post-modern means different things to different critics. How do we define post-modern? Is it post-industrialization? Post-capitalism? Post-war? It would seem that post-modern is often misused to mean "new." I think that it's also interesting that in regards to the church and post-modernity, the shift from religion to spirituality is a move away from an institutionalized faith. How does this impact the way we understand church? Do we need to redefine church by attaching and favoring words such as traditional, mainline, emerging, and missional instead of using denominations?