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Category: Thinking Tools
How does the Bible think? What are the distinctive patterns and moves that characterise it? How does the Bible’s story-line provide ways to think about life, society and values?
What are the repeated moves made in contemporary culture across diverse fields and debates?
These posts seek to discern these characteristic biblical and cultural moves, so that you can address and explore them in your own thinking.
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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 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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Diagonalisation: Let the Bible Disrupt Our Culture’s Comfortable Dichotomies
This post originally appeared on The Gospel Coalition Australia. You might have heard the joke about the city-dweller who becomes lost while walking in the countryside and begins to despair of ever finding his way home. He stumbles from field to field, but his eyes light up when he sees a local out walking her
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Three ways that being a Christian make a difference to the work and life of an academic
For those Christian scholars who work in biblical studies, theology or church history, it can be relatively straightforward to see how being a Christian and working in academia can fit together. For the rest of us, the jigsaw is not so easy to complete. As a doctoral student I worried about whether I was being
