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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 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.
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Video: Social and Cultural Implications of the Creator-Creature Distinction
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 December 2021. The second in a two-part mini-series, this session develops the idea of biblical “figures” introduced in the previous session. We focus on one biblical figure in particular, the
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Video: An introduction to biblical figures
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 December 2021. The first in a two-part mini-series, this session introduces the notion of biblical “figures”: repeated patterns and rhythms that become the Bible’s “signature moves” and inform Christian social
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Video on God, Culture and Society–Paradigm Shift Episode 2 Pilot Video
This is a pilot episode for a video series about how the Bible shapes a Christian’s understanding of the world, culture, identity and society. In this episode I discuss how the Bible’s particular understanding of God gives Christians a distinctive way of engaging with social and cultural issues. I discuss foundational biblical ideas such as
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Developing a biblical critical theory
Since the mid-twentieth century, critical theory has dominated much of academia and deeply influenced wider society. This talk develops four ideas: 1) What is critical theory? 2) What is a biblical critical theory? 3) What sort of moves will a biblical critical theory make? 4) Why is developing a biblical critical theory an important task
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Video: On being a Christian academic
A short interview with Christian academic Christopher Watkin about faith and the academy, made for the Simeon Network (http://simeonnetwork.org/).
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Video talk: Contributing to your field in the light of the gospel
This talk was given to the Sydney University Evangelical Union Postgraduate Society in June 2021. I reflect on how being a Christian shapes our approach to the academic life not just in the work we do, but in four interlocking ways that build a holistic approach to glorifying God in academic study.
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Let’s do it again! Second podcast on cultural Marxism for the Gospel Coalition
A little while ago, I got back together with Mikey Lynch, Brianna McClean and Rob Smith to continue our discussion of Christianity and cultural Marxism. You can find it on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Here are the show notes: Our most popular episode of the season featured Christopher Watkin, Rob Smith and Mikey Lynch
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Video lectures on a biblical theology of culture: creation, fall and redemption
Recently I had the privilege of leading two seminars at the 2020 FEUER Academic Speakers Network. I tackled the question of how to read our culture through the categories and patterns of the Bible, specifically through the creation-fall-redemption framework of biblical theology. The videos below are slightly amended versions of these two seminars. Video 1:
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Gospel Coalition Podcast on Cultural Marxism, Critical Theory, Cancel Culture and Christianity
I recently had the pleasure of taking part in a conversation with Dr Rob Smith of Sydney Bible College and Mikey Lynch of the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students on the subject of the “cultural Marxism” that, according to some, is one of the most immediate threats to the church today. We carefully pick through