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Category: Thinking Through the Bible series
The Thinking Through the Bible series explores the repeated patterns of the Bible along with its overall narrative shape to generate a series of tools for cultural critique. The aim is to dive deeply into the Bible in order to draw out fresh, faithful, sensitive and constructive interventions into important social and intellectual debates.
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Biblical Theology as Public Christianity – Wheaton College Biblical Theology Masterclass
In August 2023 I had the pleasure of delivering a 3-hour masterclass to graduate students at Wheaton College on material from Biblical Critical Theory. The sessions were recorded, and they are now up on YouTube. Hour 1: Hour 2: Hour 3:
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Reflexionar a través de la creación: génesis 1 y 2 como Herramientas de crítica cultural
Extracts from my book Thinking Through Creation were recently translated into Spanish for the IFES Logos and Cosmos Initiative. Below (and here as a PDF) is the translation. Reflexionar a través de la creación: génesis 1 y 2 como Herramientas de crítica cultural Extractos de la introducción del libro de Christopher Watkin, Thinking Through Creation: Genesis
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Réflexions sur la création
Extracts from my book Thinking Through Creation were recently translated into French for the IFES Logos and Cosmos Initiative. Below (and here as a PDF) is the translation. REFLEXIONS SUR LA CREATION : GENESE 1 ET 2 EN TANT QU’OUTILS DE CRITIQUE CULTURELLE Extraits de l’introduction du livre de Christopher Watkin, Thinking Through
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Thinking Through Creation Q&A, and Tim Keller on Diagonalization
I recently had the honour of taking in part in a Q&A session on my book Thinking Through Creation, organised by the Crosslands Forum and Dr. Dan Strange. Here is a clip in which I respond to a question about diagonalization: Tim Keller also recently discussed “diagonalization” in an episode of the Mere Fidelity podcast
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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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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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Review of Thinking Through Creation in Themelios
The latest edition of the journal Themelios carried a review of Thinking Through Creation by Robert S. Smith of Sydney Missionary and Bible College and Steve Frederick of St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney. The full text of the review is available on the Themelios site, and also pasted below. REVIEWS Volume 44 – Issue 3 Thinking Through
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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
