The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, has blown up. The postmodern age has begun. Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: Truth, meaning, and individual identity do not exist. These are social constructs. Human life has no special significance, no more value than animal or plant life. All social relationships, all institutions, all moral values are expressions and masks of the primal will to power. Alarmingly, these ideas have gripped the nation's universities, which turn out today's lawyers, judges, writers, journalists, teachers, and other culture-shapers. Through society's influences, postmodernist ideas have seeped into films, television, art, literature, and politics; and, without his knowing it, into the head of the average person on the street. Christ has called us to proclaim the gospel to a culture grappling with postmodernism. We must understand our times. Then, through the power that Christ gives, we can counter the prevailing culture and proclaim His sufficiency to our society's very points of need. Gene Edward Veith, Jr., graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1973 and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas in 1979. He is the Culture Editor of WORLD MAGAZINE. He is the author of numerous books, including Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture, The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals, and God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life. He and his wife Jackquelyn have three grown children and live in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. SPANISH BIO: Gene Edward Veith Jr., se graduo de la Universidad de Oklahoma en 1973 y recibio su doctorado en Ingles de la Universidad de Kansas. Es editor de cultura de la revista World Magazine. Es autor de un sinnumero de libros incluyendo: El cristiano en el pensamiento y la cultura posmoderna y La espiritualidad de la cruz: el camino de los primeros evangelicos. El y su esposa, Jackquelyn, tienen 3 hijos adultos y residen en Cedarburg, Wisconsin.