The feature that arguably most defines the ‘postmodernist turn’ in historical studies is its engagement with the question of objectivity in historical inquiry.

Western Civilisation is a product of its past. While it has been influenced by many ideas and events throughout its vast history, it has been primarily shaped by a contest of faith between human reason and divine revelation.

New post-Enlightenment ideas moved faith, ethics and culture from the ‘absolute’ into the 'relative' category—the rise of relativism.