Paul - just to acknowledge your response - and like you, many Christians, I suspect, are alarmed at philosophical postmodernism because it seems to deny certainty in knowledge (and much else), which being the case, how we can we be certain about what we believe, the bible, God’s voice etc. The next step can be to demonise the postmodernists.

I’m not sure we need to go so far, and actually we can benefit from postmodernism - especially in its literary approach to texts. (Eg Job ‘deconstructs’ a traditional view of sin and suffering; the bible provides its own critique of patriarchy etc). Postmodernism can also help us in taking a fresh perspective on power systems - not least religion, and that associated with our supposed ideas of God. Since Jesus seems to elude all of these systems, I think he is the postmodern figure for our times par excellence.

Having a background in neither academic philosophy nor theology, but in literature, I suppose I warm to this approach. Somebody said anyway that deconstruction is less a philosophy and more a philosophy of reading. But maybe someone with better understanding than myself could comment.