I am, without question (well, of course with question given what I am about to write) a close friend of postmodernism, although I am certainly not a postmodernist. I assign enormous value in irony over knowledge (at least the narrow, oversimplistic flavors of it). I affirm the limitations of rational thought and lean toward the acceptance of perspectives that represent paradox and mystery. Even being a rather conserative Christian, I lament the Christian marraige to objectivist Western philosophy. I fear that this marriage supresses much of the spirit, emotion, mystery, and faith of the Christian church of the New Testament. This marriage demads that doctrine be studied as a lumberjack studies forests. This marriage is one that is more interested in dominating and controlling truth than embodying and being transformed by it. The human life is messy, sloppy, uncertain, riveted by the complexities of life in an uncertain and fragile world. It is characterized by phrases of struggle like "I do believe. Help me overcome my unbelief" along with phrases of certainty like "Salvation is found in no one else." Jesus more often preached in narratives that evoked questions (and that beckon to draw near) than solutions to cut and dry life equations that demanded a stoic intellectual affirmation.
At the same time, I see a proper time and place for putting on a good old Renaissance-style cloak (trunk hose and all) and playing the cold and calcuated objectivist. Ultimately, I want my dentist, cardiologist, or even the engineer of my car to be wearing these clothes.
I sometimes wonder if postmodernism might be a greater friend to Christianity than any cultural intellectual dispostion in the last 1000 years.