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Shifting Culture

Ep. 92 Christopher Watkin - How the Bible's Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

Jan 31, 2023
01:00:51

In this episode Christopher Watkin shares about analyzing culture, language and thought, how the Bible's story helps us view and critique culture and the world we live in and we get practical examples on how to do it well.

Christopher Watkin holds a PhD in modern French philosophy from Cambridge University. After lecturing at Cambridge he moved to Australia and now teaches at Monash University in Melbourne, where he lives with his wife Alison and their two children. He is the author of ten books, including Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture (Zondervan Academic, 2022), and Thinking Through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 as Tools of Cultural Critique (P&R, 2017), as well as volumes on Derrida (2017), Foucault (2018) and Deleuze (2021) in the P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series. He blogs at christopherwatkin.com and thinkingthroughthebible.com, and you can find him on Twitter @DrChrisWatkin.

Chris' book:
Biblical Critical Theory

Chris' Recommendations:
The Augustine Way
Cornelius Van Til

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