Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-105).

The matter of semantics: Paradigm; Epistemology; Positivism; The Enlightenment; Modernism; Paradigm shift; Postmodernism; Death of the author/subject; Grand narratives; Post-structuralists; Contested knowledge; Logocentrism; Metaphysics; Metaphor; Collapse of unity; Narratives (fragmentation of); Deconstruction; Relativism; Hermeneutics; Summary and conclusion
Roots of postmodernism: Friedrich Nietzsche; Ferdinand le Saussure; Martin Heidegger; Claude Levi-Strauss; Michel Foucault; Jaques Derrida; Jean-Francois Lyotard; Jean Baudrillard; Richard Rorty
A Critical evaluation: An important distinction -- Statements: Postmodern critique on modernity is valid; Certain postmodern strategies can make an important contribution to pastoral therapy; There is reason to be concerned about the manner in which the postmodern debate is conducted; Postmodernism is counter-productive; Postmodernism features a contradiction in terms; There is a general tendency to absolutise the strategy of deconstruction; Conflicting epistemologies are irreconcilable; The paradigm principle may not be ignored, overlooked or forgotten; The seduction of postmodernity should not be underestimated
Postmodernism and ethics in a pastoral context: Ethics and: the other; contextuality; personal responsibility; as open-ended dynamics; relativism; directive approach; hermeneutics
Practical theology and the theory of communicative acts: Diaconiology -- Practical Theology: Jurgen Habermas; Paul Ricoeur; Back to practical theology