The Rise of Social Justice Ideology (with Neil Shenvi and Pat Sawyer)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Where Are Critical Theory and the Social Justice Movement Taking Us? Sean shares a bonus episode on critical theory where its expression in fields such as critical race theory, critical pedagogy, and queer theory are having a profound impact on our culture. Contemporary critical theory’s ideas about race, class, gender, identity, and justice have dramatically shaped how people think, act, and view one another—in Christian and secular spheres alike. Authors Neil Shenvi and Pat Sawyer illuminat...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast ThinkBibically. I'm your host Sean McDowell and today we have for you a bonus episode.
0:08.0	Now this is a podcast I recorded on my YouTube channel, but it is right in line with what you are used to hearing on the Think Bibbically podcast.
0:16.3	But because it's on YouTube, we actually have time to go into some more depth.
0:21.2	So here's a bonus episode for you today. Enjoy. Critical theory, what is it, and how
0:27.0	concern should the church and wider society be about this rising influential ideology.
0:33.0	Our guests today, Dr. Neil Shenvey,
0:35.3	and Dr. Pat Sawyer, have written a timely
0:38.0	and brilliant book I highly recommend
0:41.2	called Critical Delema. You're given a heightened authority. highly recommend called critical dilemma.
0:43.0	You're given a heightened authority
0:45.3	to tell people about reality.
0:47.0	We want to think of critical theory
0:48.8	in several different ways.
0:50.0	And that's how I got involved.
0:51.6	Okay, that's a great question.
0:52.9	What do we mean by critical theory?
0:55.9	Fellas, I would put this on my highest level of book
0:58.9	I would recommend for the kind of book that it is,
1:01.8	and I've been looking forward to this conversation for a long time.
1:04.9	Let's jump in by hearing your story of kind of what motivated you as scholars in somewhat
1:10.0	different fields to step into this and ultimately write the book.
1:14.0	Neil, why don't you go first?
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