What is critical theory and why is it important for the Christian to understand it?

What's the connection between critical theory and the sexual revolution of the 1960s?

And can there be such a thing as a biblical critical theory?

We look at these questions and a whole lot more with our guest today, Dr. Carl Truman,

in his latest, very insightful book entitled

To Change All Worlds. I'm your host, Scott Ray. And I'm your co-host, Sean McAow. This is Think

Biblically from Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. Carl, so happy to have you with us,

and so appreciate the book that you've done that takes a really complicated subject and makes it

accessible to people who may not

have a background in this area.

Thanks very much.

It's great to be with you guys.

So, Carl, let's start with this.

For the person who's completely unfamiliar with critical theory, what is it and why does

it matter for people to understand it?

Yeah, good question.

Critical theory really has its origins in some

comments that Karl Marx makes in the 1840s, where he makes the observation that up until his

point in time, the philosophers have interpreted the world, but the point, he says, is to change it.

And critical theory is really an approach to, we might say, the criticism of culture

that is designed not simply to describe or explain cultural behavior, what's going on in society

at any given point in time, but it's specifically designed to bring about revolutionary change,

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