Post-modernism, pluralism and Roman Catholicism

I have noticed an interesting trend among twenty-something post-moderns who also claim an evangelical heritage. They flirt with (Roman) Catholicism.

I guess you can explain this by reviewing something that R.C. Sproul said once. He said that pluralism was not a real worldview. Instead, it is an "ism" that exists between the dominance of a new "ism" over a former "ism." People land adrift in pluralism after rejecting a worldview. Then, that pluralism gives way to adopting a new "ism."

In many ways, post-modernism is a form of pluralism--all views are okay and equal. With the post-moderns rejection of modernism often comes the rejection of Reformation theology, which they see as modernistic. (Actually, I see it as a biblical correction to scholasticism, but that is another story.) This leads them to seek refuge in the time before Reformed theology hit, and that is medieval Catholicism.

This is "strange" for two reasons. First, what we call Reformed Theology is older than medieval times. It is a rediscovery of Augustinian thought, which springs straight from Paul the Apostle. The post-modern wheel stops too soon!

Secondly, with the post-modern rejection of the meta narrative, it is strange that the wheel would stop in a period of low scholastic standards, where authority took the place of thinking. Since post-moderns reject authority, it seems strange that they would rest in the bosum of the most authoritarian form of church government that is around.

This is sort of like someone who rejects the current style of automobile because it was influenced by the last style. In reaching back to the style before that, he fails to observe that his chosen style actually followed a style that is much like the current style. So, know history, know knowledge--no history, no knowledge!