ABSTRACT
Readings of the postmodern are legion, and these legions seem locked in perpetual combat.1 In this essay I will attempt to distinguish two among the many versions of the closure of modernity-postmodernity as the end of ‘metanarratives’ and postmodernity as the end of ‘suspicion’ —and sketch a theological version of the latter as a genuine path forward. Postmodernity is too easily identified with nihilistic accounts of truth, for such an association presumes an identification of modernity with truth and reason. In this essay I will gesture toward a theological account of truth-an account that belongs neither to modernity nor to premodernity or postmodernity-that can begin to acquire new force as the end of the reign of modern ‘clear and distinct ideas’ comes into view. In this sense, postmodernity can be a propitious moment for theology. Still, postmodernity in no way constitutes the condition for the possibility of theology; the possibility of speech about God can be founded on nothing less than God’s own speaking.
