It takes a long time for new ideas to permeate a culture and transform it. Post modernity developed in the late twentieth century across architect, fine arts and philosophy. Later it acquired meaning in the world of literature as well. Post modernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things... (p 9 white). The history of postmodern formed at a point in the Western culture and is a spring board off …show more content…
Faith in reason came to hope in progress. Modernism derives truth from observation that is impersonal and objective. It was assumed that there were order and laws in the natural and social worlds that reason could discern that reason was to represent and control the world. The culture is changing and postmodern ideas are driving that change.
Twenty first century America however is rapidly becoming a postmodern platform. Many people believe that a turn towards postmodernism will cause America culture to become less morally centered and more hostile to Christianity (p.20). Every institution is affected by the culture in which it lives, especially the culture in which it is born. The church before the modern period was organized hierarchically that had many worldly powers, like bishops and abbots, and these powerful figures had their own feudal