I continue to try to get my arms around postmodernity--what does it really mean? I think Michael Horton is right. "Most of postmodernism is simply a code word for something new." I do think that regardless of what postmodernism is or isn't, it is the job of generational prophets to redefine the language of Scripture in a way that makes sense to the cultural context.
In The Church in the Emerging Culture, Frederica Mathewes redefines sin and salvation in ways that I think are biblically true and culturally relevant. I wonder if the dominant metaphor of the gospel needs to transition from legal language to medical language.
Maybe we need to see Jesus as The Great Physician. He defined his mission in medical terms--"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick." Sin is a sickness. Mathewes says, "Sins are akin to drops of poison." She says, "Sin is infection, not infraction." I think sin is both/and.
Holiness is wholeness. Holiness is perfect health in every dimension of the word--emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and relational.