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Category: Audio and video
Here you can find audio and video recordings of Chris’s broadcasts, podcasts, talks, seminars and training sessions related to Christianity, culture and worldview.
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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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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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Video talk on Foucault, sexuality and the Bible
Here is a recording of a lunchtime talk I gave at Biola University in February 2020. I discuss the later Foucault, specifically the first volume of his History of Sexuality, and bring it into conversation with biblical notions of identity and alterity. For further reflections on Foucault and the Bible you might want to check
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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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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
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Video talk: Thinking Through Creation
How does the fact that God is both absolute and personal shape a Christian view of reality and culture? How does the biblical truth that human beings are made in the image of God help Christians to avoid two opposite dangers in relation to human identity? How does God’s command to Adam and Eve to
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Video talk: Introduction to Thinking Through the Bible
This is the first in a series of four talks exploring how the biblical turning points of creation, fall and redemption can 1) shape fresh and faithful interventions into some of the most important social, cultural, political and intellectual debates of our day, and 2) help Christian students to understand and engage with their academic
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What does Derrida mean by ‘There is nothing outside the text?’ video
In July 2019 I had the pleasure of joining Prof. James Anderson of Reformed Theological Seminary for a wide-ranging conversation about philosophy, theology and the P&R Publishing Great Thinkers book series, in which James has a volume on David Hume and I have books on Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. In this excerpt I pick
