Apologetics and Critical Race Theory with Neil Shenvi
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Although Neil has a PhD in theoretical chemistry, he’s made a name for himself as an expert on Critical Race Theory (and Critical Theory more generally). Is CRT just a legal theory? Can anyone know what it really is? Is CRT just a plot by conservatives to gin up votes? Should Christians take CRT and chew the meat and spit out of the bones? Kevin and Neil answer these questions and many more. They also dive into Neil’s new book on apologetics and explore the wild world of evangelical Twitter.
Timestamps:
Intro and Sponsor: Crossway [0:00-2:35]
Guest Introduction: Neil Shenvi [2:36-14:46]
Neil's Map of Evangelical Twitter [14:47-22:27]
Why Believe? [22:28-28:43]
What is Apologetics For? [28:44-36:50]
Sponsor 2: Westminster Seminary Press [36:51-38:02]
How to Understand Critical Race Theory [38:03-1:10:06]
Pastoral Responses [1:10:07-1:20:26]
Books:
Why Believe: A Reasoned Approach to Christianity - Neil Shenvi
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
Cold Case Christianity - J. Warner Wallace
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction - Richard Delgado
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Kevin DeYoung and I am joined here with my special guest who I'll say more about in just a moment. |
| 0:23.3 | Neil Shenvi. |
| 0:25.3 | Neil and I live in the same state of North Carolina and I followed Neil and stuff he's |
| 0:32.1 | written online for a long time, well, several years. |
| 0:36.8 | And we've emailed here or there, |
| 0:39.0 | but we haven't had the chance to be in the same place at the same time. |
| 0:41.9 | So this is the closest we've been, |
| 0:43.3 | at least virtually in the same place at the same time. |
| 0:45.5 | So I'm looking forward to having a wide-ranging conversation with Neil |
| 0:49.6 | in just a moment. |
| 0:51.6 | And fittingly, Crossway, our regular sponsor for Life and Books and Everything, |
| 1:00.2 | has a new book. And we are going to spend some time talking about this book, |
| 1:03.8 | among other things, new Crossway book by none other than Neil on why believe a reasoned approach to Christianity? |
| 1:14.0 | And at 250 pages, it is a real nice apologetics book that covers a variety of issues, the |
| 1:25.0 | historicity of the resurrection, can you trust the Bible? |
| 1:30.2 | Some of the philosophical objections to Christianity talks about God and revelation, the uniqueness |
| 1:37.5 | of Christianity, the doctrine of sin. |
| 1:40.7 | One of the things Neil explains in there is he doesn't try to get, I don't want to say it would be sidetracked, |
| 1:46.3 | but he doesn't go down trying to explain Christian views of sexuality, marriage, and gender, |
| 1:52.9 | though we're going to hear that he's working on a book that does talk about all of those issues. |
| 1:57.8 | But this book, Why Believe, is a book that you could give to a high school |
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