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Category: Christianity and Academia
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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: 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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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.
