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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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VIDEO: Melbourne Book launch for Chris Watkin’s “Biblical Critical Theory”
Here is a full version of the Melbourne launch of Biblical Critical Theory (18 November 2022), posted on the Gospel Coalition Australia channel.
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VIDEO: Why Do People Think Differently? – Assoc Prof Christopher Watkin || 20Twenty with Neil Johnson
In this interview on Neil Johnson’s 20Twenty program we discuss Christianity, contemporary culture, and whether it is arrogant for someone to say they have the truth.
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VIDEO: Developing a Christian Social Theory, with Christopher Watkin
Jay Harvey hosts Christopher Watkin, Gray Sutanto, and Mark McDowell in an online discussion with Q&A on Dr. Watkin’s forthcoming book, Biblical Critical Theory, from Zondervan Academic. In Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher Watkin shows how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make sense of modern life and culture. Critical theories exist to critique
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VIDEO: Thinking Biblically about Faith & Politics, An Interview with Christopher Watkin
Dustin+ Messer talks about faith, culture, and politics with Christopher Watkin, author of Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture.
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AUDIO: Biblical Critical Theory on the Undeceptions podcast
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr John Dickson on his Undeceptions podcast about my book Biblical Critical Theory.
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VIDEO: Talking with Mike Bird about an Augustinian approach to Critical Theory
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Dr Mike Bird on his Early Christian History YouTube channel about Biblical Critical Theory. Here’s a summary of what we covered: 00:40 – Who is Chris Watkin? 01:40 – Is Derrida the bad guy? 04:00 – What is “Critical Theory”? 13:48 – What is “Biblical Critical Theory”?
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VIDEO. Biblical Critical Theory: Tools for Cultural Critique
In this talk I present the rationale for a biblical critical theory, drawing heavily on Augustine’s City of God and Paul’s engagement with Greek and Jewish values in 1 Corinthians 1. After discussing six principles of cultural critique drawn from The City of God, I define what a critical theory is, show in what sense
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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
