Star Trek and The Next Generation on the ship Enterprise wanted to explore and seek out new life and "to boldly go where no man has gone before." The first Star Trek showed a world where humans had gone on a journey to obtain knowledge. Since this was a quest, it would go to outermost parts of the universal in seek out objective knowledge. The shipmates would join forces to overcome problems that came up on the ship. They would collectively come to agreement as how best to proceed. On the Enterprise, all the crew worked together and thought things through in a rationale way unlike The Next Generation, where rationality is not always trusted. The shift between the two shows was that the world was moving toward post modernity, leaving modernity in the dust. Even though this was only a TV series, this was the reality of the new makeup of the world, the way of thinking. As these and other changes became evident, so the challenge for the church became.
The church had to rethink and retool the Gospel to meet the need of the world. In the modern thinking mind, they assume that "knowledge is certain, objective and good, and that such knowledge is obtainable." Men try to seek out and discover knowledge during the Enlightenment Age and beyond. This crusade toward reason and truth was an individual concern. Common folks within the church now read the Bible for themselves to decipher what is truth. The church was pushed out of the business of having the trademark of truth. The biggest challenge for the church now was postmodernism.
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