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Author: chriswatkin@cantab.net
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VIDEO: Paul’s “Foolish Wisdom” as a Model of Christian Cultural Critique
This is a recording of a talk I gave for the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Greece in March 2022. I draw a model for cultural critique out of Paul’s treatment of Greek wisdom and Jewish signs in 1 Corinthians 1, and then reflect on our own culture’s deepest values, which I argue are
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Video: Thinking about your academic discipline through the New Testament
This is a recording of a seminar given to a group of doctoral students participating in the the Cambridge ‘Forming a Christian Mind’ programme in January 2022. The second in a two-part mini-series, this session explores how themes from the Old Testament can help Christian scholars to conceptualise their studies. It focuses particularly on the
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Video: Thinking about your academic discipline through the Old Testament
This is a recording of a seminar given to a group of doctoral students participating in the the Cambridge ‘Forming a Christian Mind’ programme in January 2022. The first in a two-part mini-series, this session explores how themes from the Old Testament can help Christian scholars to conceptualise their studies. It focuses particularly on the
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Video and podcast: What Did Derrida Really Mean? with Parker Settecase
I recently had the great pleasure of discussing Derrida and theology with Parker Settecase on his podcast Parker’s Pensées. We covered some key Derridean terms such as deconstruction, iterability, violence and incommensurability, and we considered how Derrida’s thought relates to biblical concepts in genreal and the ideas of Cornelius Van Til in particular.
