The Religious Postmodernity

Abstract

The use of a hermeneutic open to the demands of metaphysical knowledge would be able to show how one moves from the historical circumstances and contingencies in which the Sacred Texts have matured to the truth expressed through them, which overcomes these circumstances by rising high above them. Man, with his historically limited speech, finds himself able to express truths that transcend the use of language. For truth can never be confined to a time or a cultural form. If postmodernity is a distrust of metanarratives (in Lyotard's sense), then substantive denotation presupposes the primacy of meaning that precisely eludes postmodernism.