I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Camden Bucey and Adam York of the Reformed Forum about my recent book Thinking Through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 as Tools of Cultural Critique.
The conversation ranged over:
- what it means to deploy the Bible as a tool of cultural critique
- John Stott’s ‘double listening’
- why the Bible makes a particularly rich and powerful source of cultural critique
- why Christians are in a great position to be among the best cultural critics, though we often don’t take advantage of the resources we have
- how the Trinity gives Christians a distinctive approach to social problems
- the difference between a ‘n-shaped’ and a ‘u-shaped’ dynamic when it comes to relating to God, and how each option engenders a particular sort of society
- the dangers of thinking of the relationship between Christ and culture either overwhelmingly in terms of antithesis or overwhelmingly in terms of accommodation
- which Christian authors have influenced my thinking
- the future volumes in the ‘Thinking Through the Bible’ series
Many thanks to Camden and Adam for a great conversation.
Here is the interview on the Thinking Through the Bible YouTube channel:
Here are some snippets from the conversation
Language and Reality in Creation:
The character of creation:
The problem of the one and the many:
Christians and culture:
And here is the original Reformed Forum page:
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