Review of Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

Authors

  • Gordon Menzies University of Technology

Abstract

I met Chris Watkin in an integrative scholars’ network in Australia, and it is a great pleasure to review his new book Biblical Critical Theory.

The work comes at the task of thinking Christianly in a thoroughly and uniquely biblical way. Chris seeks to bring biblical notions in contact with contemporary thinkers who are largely, but not exclusively, of the continental European philosophy tradition - hence “critical theory” in the title. What makes the book unique is that he not only brings biblical concepts in touch with our contemporaries, but he does so in such a way that his work inherits certain aspects of the bible itself.

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Published

2023-12-07

How to Cite

Menzies, G. (2023). Review of Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture . Australasian Pentecostal Studies, 24(1), 74–76. Retrieved from https://aps-journal.com/index.php/APS/article/view/9635

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 1 (2023): Australasian Pentecostal Studies

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Book Reviews

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