The Rise of Contemporary Critical Theory with Neil Shenvi and Pat Sawyer
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
We've heard the terms before: cultural Marxism, socialism, intersectionality, microaggressions, standpoint epistemology, the Frankfurt School, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and many more. But what do they mean? Where did they come from? And how should Christians respond? Kevin talks to Neil and Pat about their new book, Critical Dilemma: The Rise of Critical Theories and Social Justice Ideology, to try answer these questions and to think carefully about we can understand and engage the dominant ideologies of our day.
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
1:17 The Critical Dilemma
23:25 Sponsor | Crossway Books
24:00 What is Contemporary Critical Theory
57:30 Sponsor | Desiring God
58:05 CRT: A Worldview or Religion?
1:11:40 A Final Word
1:14:45 Until Next Time
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor at Christ's Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina, |
| 0:17.5 | just outside of Charlotte. |
| 0:19.3 | Today I'm joined by my guests, Neil Shinvi and Pat |
| 0:24.0 | Sawyer, all three of us in the great state, sunny state this morning, allergy-filled state for me |
| 0:31.2 | of North Carolina. So glad to have these two brothers on here. I've had lunch once with Pat, and I've had Neil on the |
| 0:40.6 | program, but I don't think we've actually met in person, but very thankful for both of you, |
| 0:44.9 | brothers, thankful for your work. And today we are talking about critical dilemma, the rise of |
| 0:51.5 | critical theories and social justice ideology,ations for the Church and Society, |
| 0:57.4 | published by Harvest House just has come out in the last couple of weeks. Thank you to both of you. |
| 1:03.1 | This is a comprehensive work in many ways and excellent work, nearly 500 pages. Thank you for your |
| 1:09.3 | carefulness, your clarity, your depth of insight and understanding on |
| 1:13.7 | this book. |
| 1:14.6 | So let me just start here. |
| 1:17.5 | How did both of you get to work together on this project and other projects? |
| 1:23.3 | And how did you each become interested in this topic? |
| 1:26.6 | Because it's not an obvious intersection. |
| 1:29.6 | Let's start with you, Neil. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah, good question. |
| 1:32.6 | So I became a Christian in graduate school, doing my degree in theoretical chemistry, |
| 1:38.0 | and I became interested in apologetics shortly after becoming a Christian. |
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