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Author: Chris Watkin
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Video lectures on a biblical theology of culture: creation, fall and redemption
Recently I had the privilege of leading two seminars at the 2020 FEUER Academic Speakers Network. I tackled the question of how to read our culture through the categories and patterns of the Bible, specifically through the creation-fall-redemption framework of biblical theology. The videos below are slightly amended versions of these two seminars. Video 1:
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Gospel Coalition Podcast on Cultural Marxism, Critical Theory, Cancel Culture and Christianity
I recently had the pleasure of taking part in a conversation with Dr Rob Smith of Sydney Bible College and Mikey Lynch of the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students on the subject of the “cultural Marxism” that, according to some, is one of the most immediate threats to the church today. We carefully pick through
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Five reasons why we need a biblical cultural theory today
Perhaps we should blame it on the Jordan Peterson phenomenon. Or maybe it’s a symptom of the increasingly tribalized culture wars echoing noisily through the Twittersphere. However we got here, we have to admit that “critical theory” and “cultural Marxism” have become a thing for Christians today. What is at stake for Christians in grappling
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The Jubilee Centre – Christianity and the Social Contract
My article on Christianity and the Social Contract is now available on the Jubilee Centre website. .
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The Social Contract and the Sinai Covenant – an address for the Chapel of Hertford College, Oxford
This talk was prepared as a video address for the Chapel of Hertford College, Oxford. My sincere thanks go to Mia Smith for her kind invitation. A transcript can be found below. It is hard to escape the language and the implications of the social contract today. A steady stream of newspaper articles argue
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The basis of a healthy society: the social contract, promise-keeping and the Golden Rule
To adapt a popular meme from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, “One does not simply… rewrite the social contract”. It isn’t something we can change at will. It doesn’t drop from the sky fully formed. And, as we know, it wasn’t simply “written” in the first place. The codified aspects of the social contract—the
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Christianity and the social contract: preliminary reflections
The paper below was prepared for the Jubilee Centre taskforce on the role of the state in the post COVID-19 world. Its intention is to provide a brief overview of classic social contract theory and identify some ways in which the social contract paradigm relates to Christian theology. Enjoy! Christianity and the social contract “Contemporary
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Camus, Christ and COVID-19 Q&A now on YouTube
The full video of my seminar ‘Camus, Christ and COVID-19’, including Q&A, is now available from Christian Heritage on YouTube: The original video I prepared for the presentation part of the seminar (minus the introduction and post-presentation Q&A) is available here:
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Albert Camus, Literature, and The Plague
This is the script of a video I prepared for the “Camus, Christ and COVID-19” event hosted by Christian Heritage Cambridge on 20 May 2020. I aim to address three questions: the place and importance of literature during a time of crisis such as COVID-19 the meaning of Albert Camus’ story The Plague (he withdrew
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More unacceptable reasons to enjoy the pandemic
For the full series of “Lets read Camus’ La Peste” posts, please click here. In the previous post in this series I reflected on how literature can reveal the hidden side of a pandemic. Attitudes that would be incendiary if voiced in the first person can be exposed and explored in literary texts, absent
