Is There a Biblical Critical Theory? with Dr. Christopher Watkin

While modern critical theories seek to deconstruct society and reveal its injustices, Dr. Christopher Watkin makes the case that Christianity gives us the best resources to critique culture.

0:00 Modern anthropology
1:22 Dr. Christopher Watkin
2:15 The background of Critical Theory
4:52 Was St. Augustine the original Critical Theorist?
6:02 Christianity critiques culture
8:02 Radical different visions for society
9:08 He who shouts loudest wins
10:42 A standpoint of redemption
11:41 Competing metanarratives
13:20 The Enlightenment story and the Christian story
15:08 Cain, Lamech, and Noah
17:16 But God
18:28 Rhythms of grace
21:09 Let my people go that they may serve me
22:33 Be who the market tells you to be [clip]
26:42 We are owned by the market
28:01 Phenomenology and social imaginaries
32:00 Modern examples
34:12 Do Christians have more reason to have a hermeneutic of suspicion than Nietzsche and Marx?
37:55 Augustine's City of God
41:10 How should Christians analyze culture?
42:57 Practicing Biblical Critical Theory in the 21st Century
47:35 We need to reevaluate how we are being conformed to Christ or this passing age

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