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The Cross: subverting post-modernism

Graham Tomlin

A major issue facing Christian theology on the eve of the new millennium is the question of power.

On the wider cultural level, the post-modern critique of thinkers such as Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida and especially Michel Foucault contains the charge that all claims to truth, including the claims of theology, are merely secret bids for power.