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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