POSTMODERNISM AND CHRISTIANTY AS THE CHALLENGE IN INDONESIA CONTEXT

Abstract

This paper explores postmodernism and Christianity challenges and opportunities for Religious Studies in Indonesia's Context. It is especially concerned with relationships between Christianity and Global Postmodernism contexts in Indonesia which the two disciplines are located and how scholarly discourse can be enriched by transnational cooperation and discourse. It is argued that Christianity and postmodernism should be understood as an academic discourse in Indonesia Context. It must be distinguished between Christianity and postmodernism as discourse internal to and across confessional lines. More concretely, the paper is concerned with the epistemological foundations of the academic study of Christianity and with the issue of postmodernism. It is argued that in today’s globalized world postmodernism is a fact that cannot be ignored or eliminated. Discussion Postmodernism obscure and incapacitates differences of views and claims the truth. In this research, the writer would like to review how to development of Postmodernism?  How does Bible answer the concept of postmodernism? How Jesus Christ between postmodernism and Christianity as the challenge transformation in the Indonesian context?