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Postmodern Scholasticism: Critique of Postmodern Univocity

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Is there a "postmodern" phase of history? If so, is it to be celebrated or regretted? If the modern is progressive, is the postmodern reactionary? The myth that there are irreversible cultural breaks through time has long since been refuted.¹ In tracing developments from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period, parts of late mediaeval theological thought can be seen as underpinning later "modern" ideas, while much of the Enlightenment may also be seen as a qualified reaction against these changes. The origins of modernity are often explained in terms of "the Enlightenment," and modernity in terms...