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[3312.68 --> 3314.10] yet third
[3314.10 --> 3315.84] sort of way.
[3316.02 --> 3318.02] And people are calling this time
[3318.02 --> 3319.64] various different names.
[3320.06 --> 3321.00] Post-postmodernism,
[3321.82 --> 3323.06] post-secularism
[3323.06 --> 3323.80] is one.
[3323.80 --> 3324.70] A new one
[3324.70 --> 3325.72] that I recently learned
[3325.72 --> 3327.30] is metamodernity.
[3329.56 --> 3330.08] Metamodern
[3330.08 --> 3330.68] is a term
[3330.68 --> 3331.62] that I just learned
[3331.62 --> 3332.18] at a lecture
[3332.18 --> 3333.78] at TWU.
[3334.34 --> 3335.06] It was the inaugural
[3335.06 --> 3336.72] lecture for the chair
[3336.72 --> 3337.88] of New Testament Studies,
[3338.04 --> 3338.94] Dr. Kent Clark.
[3340.24 --> 3340.98] And since then,
[3341.02 --> 3341.62] I've been doing
[3341.62 --> 3342.32] a deep dive
[3342.32 --> 3343.86] into this sort of thing.
[3343.96 --> 3344.18] And so,
[3344.26 --> 3345.04] bear with me
[3345.04 --> 3345.74] for a moment
[3345.74 --> 3347.66] because I'm in a nerd out
[3347.66 --> 3348.72] and I hope you can come along
[3348.72 --> 3349.26] for the journey.
[3349.58 --> 3350.34] But I think the payoff
[3350.34 --> 3350.84] is great.
[3350.84 --> 3352.92] And so,
[3353.02 --> 3353.58] there are two
[3353.58 --> 3354.34] contemporary
[3354.34 --> 3356.30] cultural theorists
[3356.30 --> 3358.16] by the name of
[3358.16 --> 3359.08] Vermillion and
[3359.08 --> 3359.70] Vandenacker
[3359.70 --> 3361.84] who define
[3361.84 --> 3363.30] metamodernism for us.
[3363.34 --> 3363.84] And I'm going to share
[3363.84 --> 3364.46] this with you.
[3366.46 --> 3367.10] Metamodernism
[3367.10 --> 3368.16] oscillates
[3368.16 --> 3369.30] between the modern
[3369.30 --> 3370.50] and the postmodern.
[3370.96 --> 3371.90] It oscillates
[3371.90 --> 3372.78] between a modern
[3372.78 --> 3373.54] enthusiasm
[3373.54 --> 3374.86] and a postmodern
[3374.86 --> 3375.46] irony,
[3375.88 --> 3376.78] between hope
[3376.78 --> 3378.70] and melancholy,
[3378.70 --> 3379.84] between naivete
[3379.84 --> 3381.16] and knowingness,
[3381.56 --> 3381.92] empathy
[3381.92 --> 3382.94] and apathy,
[3383.20 --> 3383.48] unity
[3383.48 --> 3384.54] and plurality,
[3384.70 --> 3385.24] totality
[3385.24 --> 3386.24] and fragmentation,
[3386.68 --> 3386.98] purity
[3386.98 --> 3388.02] and ambiguity.
[3391.72 --> 3392.88] I don't know
[3392.88 --> 3394.86] how you
[3394.86 --> 3395.42] have been
[3395.42 --> 3395.94] experiencing
[3395.94 --> 3396.94] life lately,
[3397.66 --> 3398.72] but for the people
[3398.72 --> 3399.60] that I talk to
[3399.60 --> 3400.10] and honestly,
[3400.22 --> 3400.86] especially those
[3400.86 --> 3401.52] under 35,
[3402.00 --> 3402.82] this is it.
[3404.76 --> 3405.94] Vermillion goes on
[3405.94 --> 3406.40] and he says,
[3406.40 --> 3407.58] grand narratives
[3407.58 --> 3409.10] are as necessary
[3409.10 --> 3410.26] as they are problematic.
[3411.42 --> 3412.60] Hope is not simply
[3412.60 --> 3413.90] something to distrust.
[3414.36 --> 3415.62] Love is not necessarily
[3415.62 --> 3417.08] something to be ridiculed.
[3418.74 --> 3419.38] And all of this
[3419.38 --> 3420.12] kind of echoes
[3420.12 --> 3421.38] what Charles Taylor
[3421.38 --> 3423.02] describes,
[3423.44 --> 3423.70] I think,
[3423.80 --> 3424.34] perfectly
[3424.34 --> 3425.68] the way of
[3425.68 --> 3426.60] sense-making
[3426.60 --> 3427.64] for people today.
[3428.14 --> 3428.46] And again,
[3428.52 --> 3428.88] like I said,
[3428.94 --> 3429.68] especially for those
[3429.68 --> 3430.70] who are younger than I am.
[3431.16 --> 3432.02] We live in this
[3432.02 --> 3433.34] post-secular age
[3433.34 --> 3434.40] not because
[3434.40 --> 3435.76] everyone believes,