A conversation with Christopher Watkin - S11.E16
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🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Communicating biblical truth to a post-modern culture is no easy task. But Christopher Watkin, author of the new book, Biblical Critical Theory, not only understands the post-modern mindset, but also how to communicate what he calls the "unique treasures" the Bible offers for rightly interpreting the world in which we live. Christopher Watkin has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is associate professor of French studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with the author of an |
| 0:08.4 | important new book that does nothing less than attempt to make sense from a biblical point |
| 0:14.3 | of view of all of modern life and culture. |
| 0:18.0 | The book is called Biblical Critical Theory, and my guest today, Christopher Watkins. |
| 0:24.7 | If you really, really want wisdom, you need to be serious enough to look for it in the |
| 0:29.1 | place that you'd least think of finding it, which is the foolishness of a condemned |
| 0:34.3 | criminal hanging up and dying on a cross because if you do look there, you're going to find |
| 0:39.1 | the fullness of wisdom, a deeper wisdom than you ever expected. |
| 0:44.3 | The phrase critical theory is one that is sure to generate strong and usually negative opinions |
| 0:51.0 | in the evangelical world. |
| 0:53.3 | Most critics of critical theory note little about the historical and philosophical underpinnings |
| 1:00.6 | of the movement. |
| 1:02.1 | Not so, my guest today, Christopher Watkins. |
| 1:05.2 | He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and he's associate professor of French studies |
| 1:11.1 | at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, one of the largest research institutions |
| 1:17.1 | in that country. |
| 1:18.6 | He's also a deeply committed Christian, with a passion for speaking to the postmodern |
| 1:24.2 | mind with a dynamic voice. |
| 1:27.5 | We must engage the ideas that are undermining Christianity from a position of strength, |
| 1:33.6 | he believes. |
| 1:34.6 | That means we must deeply understand those ideas, but we must not accept the categories |
| 1:40.8 | and framework presented by those ideas in the critical theory movement. |
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