The postmodern vantage point exists beyond the position where religion tries to own the world and beyond the modern position where the world tries to remove religion. Post-modernity is the synthesis of faith that looks past superstitious beliefs and also resists a prideful mandate for reason at the expense of our sacred stories and traditions. John Caputo makes a wonderful point in his book “On Religion” by suggesting that post-critical thought doesn't simple reject modernity's bent for criticism, but absorbs it before it moves on to other things.

But I hasten to add that this “post-secular” frame of mind is not uncritical or naïve. It has arisen as the result of an “iteration” process that by criticizing the critique ends up in a post-critical position, one that is interestingly like the unearthing of a certain analogy between the pre-critical and the post-critical and newly opened lines of communication between them. But this is only an analogy, because the post-critical will have also passed through the critique and taken it to heart, even if it has moved on. - John Caputo “On Religion” (p.38)

Postmodern deconstruction is not as simple as going back to a ancient naivety. It requires a robust understanding and inclusion of the contributions of modernity even as we move on.