ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews some of the features of a particular theological perspective advocated by James McClendon and James Smith which exemplifies nonfoundational postmodern qualities and addresses Andrew Kirk's concerns related to the relativism of the tradition-constituted perspectives. Kirk's argument builds on a particular understanding of the concepts of foundationalism, postmodernity and on the justification of truth claims. Kirk does take a note of the possibility of a perspectivist or coherentist account of knowledge as an alternative for epistemological foundationalism. Continental postmodernity can be looked at as the most modern product of modernity or as modernist deconstructionism. In a series of works Nancey Murphy has extended the MacIntyrean argument and provided further grounds to validate the truth claims of large-scale narrative constituted traditions, particularly in providing resources for constructing postmodern theologies. Anglo-American postmodern thought recovers the value of the community in all aspects of intellectual space epistemologically, linguistically, and ethically.
