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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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7 ways Christians have read postmodern thinkers 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 discuss
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Reformed Forum Christ the Centre episode on Thinking Through Creation
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Camden Bucey and Adam York of the Reformed Forum about my recent book Thinking Through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 as Tools of Cultural Critique. The conversation ranged over: what it means to deploy the Bible as a tool of cultural critique John Stott’s ‘double listening’ why
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Who am I? Jesus’s question to find your true identity may surprise you
One of the great questions of our age is “Who am I?” Its answer is the key to unlock every door. Films like the original Star Wars trilogy, the Jason Bourne franchise and Captain Marvel derive much of their narrative impetus and emotional pull from the quest for the self: what is my true identity?
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The Gospel Coalition Course | Derrida, Foucault, and the Bible
Derrida, Foucault, and the Bible Understand What Prominent Postmodern Philosophers Derrida and Foucault Were Saying, and Put Their Views in Conversation with the Bible About the Course This course will help you see what Derrida and Foucault are really saying, and show you how you can bring their thought into conversation with the Bible. You
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Podcast on Derrida, theology and Reformed theology
In this third podcast I begin by discussing Derrida’s cautious affirmation that “I rightly pass for an atheist”, and try to dismantle the myth that, for Derrida, God can be whatever you want him/her/it to be. I trace Derrida’s rejection of the god of onto-theology and then explain why he returns to the trope of “x without
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Podcast on Derrida, ethics and Reformed theology
In this episode I talk very briefly about the growing willingness to accept, from the mid 1990s onwards, that deconstruction is indeed ethical, before tackling the myth that Derrida is a relativist. I unpack the phrase “tout autre est tout autre” (“every other is wholly other”) from Derrida’s reading of Kierkegaard on Genesis 22 and
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Podcast on Derrida, metaphysics and Reformed theology
Recorded with the Reformed Forum in 2016. In this first of three podcasts I introduce Derrida and debunk the myth that he thinks language is meaningless or that things can mean whatever we want them to mean. I then unpack the famous phrase “il n’y a pas de hors-texte” (“there is nothing outside the text”) and the notions of logocentrism