All thought is always inescapably in some way, shape, or form religious.

You're either submitting to the Lordship of Christ or you're not.

And in critical theories, their own particular revolutionary framework,

it is a fundamentally religious vision of the world. What is the world?

What is the problem? What is the answer? Critical theory offers a form of that. I think,

in one sense, the thesis of my book is very simple. Christianity does a better job of answering

those questions.

Brad Green is professor of theological studies at Union University, visiting professor

of philosophy and theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and co-founder of the

Augustine School, a Christian liberal arts school in Jackson, Tennessee. He's also the author of

What is Critical Theory, a concise Christian Analysis. Well, Brad, thank you so much for joining me today

on the Crossway podcast. It's great to be here, Matt. Thank you for having me. So there was a season in

America, especially within the American political and kind of social landscape, when the biggest

buzzword was something that few of us at the time had ever really heard of before, the word

critical theory.

And for many of us, that term was brand new.

And then it went from being kind of a new idea, new word to something that we literally were hearing

every day, like all the time. So I wanted to start us off. Can you just give us a brief explanation,

brief definition of what you mean when you say critical theory? Okay, very good. So I'll give you

a real brief and we'll linger throughout the podcast, very good. So I'll give you a real brief and we'll linger

throughout the podcast, I suspect. So critical theory is a kind of vision of the world or a

worldview or a basic understanding of things, which is self-professably non-Christian, even

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