A lot of discussion today in the culture at large about different forms of critical

theory, critical race theory. There's a whole slew of critical theories today that goes way back historically to the

advent of postmodernism. But today we want to talk about we've got a biblical critical

theory and what exactly that is and what do the various

aspects of our of our theological stands such as the image of God the doctrine of

sin the exodus.

How do those provide resources for us

to do the kind of cultural critique that the Bible calls us to?

How do the prophets engage in cultural critique? What's the political

impact of the exodus and things like that? We'll talk about these questions and

much more with our guest. Dr. Chris Watkins with a remarkable new book called biblical critical theory.

This is Think Biblically from tablet school of theology by only university.

I'm your host Scott Ray.

I'm your co-host Sean McDow. And Chris, welcome, glad to have you with us. For our

listeners who are not really familiar with the notion of critical theory, why don't we

start with this? what is a critical theory and

what does it attempt to accomplish?

Yeah thank you Scott Sean it's lovely to be with today. Thank you for inviting me on.

A critical theory at its most basic is really an attempt

to take a step back from society and to question the way that we do things in whatever

society we find ourselves at the moment and to see what's wrong with that

society and the ways that it could be improved.

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