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Author: Chris Watkin
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Four reasons why Christians should bother with Deleuze. Extract from my forthcoming book on Deleuze and theology
This is the first of a series of extracts from my forthcoming book on Deleuze (to be published in the same P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series as the Derrida and Foucault volumes). It comes from the first section of the Introduction, in which I give four reasons why Christians should pay attention to Deleuze’s thought, and
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Christian Academics: Is your understanding of your faith three thousand miles wide and half an inch deep?
In a previous post I talked about the difference between intensive and extensive reading, and the importance of finding a balance between the two. The same terms can be applied to our faith. It is easy to live an exclusively extensive Christianity today: our coverage may be wide, but we don’t let God’s word sink
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Bible and culture 4: The Multiperspectival Bible
The transcultural nature of the Bible (see the previous post in this series) is reflected and instantiated in the biblical documents themselves in at least four ways. Each of these ways shows how the Bible crosses multiple perspectives in a way that neither homogenises them into undifferentiated unity nor fragments them into irreconcilable incoherence. First
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Review of my book on Derrida over at Mike Bird’s blog
On Mike Bird’s blog over at Patheos, Andrew Judd (lecturer in theology at Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia) recently posted a review of my book on Derrida in the P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series. The full text of the review is available on Patheos, and is also pasted below. A Christian Review of Jacques Derrida FEBRUARY
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Temptations of the academic life (5): Seeking novelty for its own sake, and over-correcting imbalances
In this short video from Biola University’s Centre for Christian thought, James Houston succinctly sketches two temptations of the academic life: to seek after novelty for its own sake, and to address a problem by over-correcting its errors. The temptation to over-correct is often born of a desire to differentiate ourselves sufficiently from those who
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Video talk: Thinking Through Redemption
How does the incarnation provide a fresh way of looking at some of the most divisive political and social divisions of our age? What are its implications for the dignity of matter, history and the human body? Why is the Christian “grace narrative” a subversive force undercutting the drivers of social fracture and division? This
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Review of Thinking Through Creation in Themelios
The latest edition of the journal Themelios carried a review of Thinking Through Creation by Robert S. Smith of Sydney Missionary and Bible College and Steve Frederick of St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney. The full text of the review is available on the Themelios site, and also pasted below. REVIEWS Volume 44 – Issue 3 Thinking Through
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“Ideas are powerful; all they need is a voice.” – The Biola Center for Christian Thought
The Biola University Center for Christian Thought has some great online resources for helping Christians think about how we can do good in academia and in our disciplines, helping them to flourish. Here is a short teaser video that introduces the Center through a brief meditation on the power of ideas:
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My hymn ‘So Near’ is now available on YouTube and Spotify
Way back in the mists of time I wrote a number of poems/hymns/songs expressing truths of the Christian life that were particularly precious to me at the time. Lo and behold, one of them has made it onto a beautiful new album produced by members of the congregation at Christ Church Cambridge. The piece is
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Video talk: Thinking Through Sin and Judgment
What is sin? What are the implications of the Bible’s presentation of sin for cultural production, politics, art and society? What is the asymmetry of good and evil, and why does it matter? How does it ground democracy and equality? This talk considers how Genesis 3 and 11 provide tools of cultural critique, and shows
