Wednesday, August 2, 2023 at 8:00pm -Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 9:30pm EDT
Online
Christopher Watkin
8 Weekly Sessions
U.S Time: Weekly starting Wednesday, August 2 — Wednesday September 20. 8 to 9:30 p.m. ET 5 to 6:30 p.m. PT
Australian Time: Weekly starting Wednesday August 3 — Thursday morning AEDT — September 21, Thursday morning 10-11:30am AEDT
The question of how Christians should relate to contemporary culture and politics is one of the most important and most hotly-debated questions facing the church today, with the potential to sow division between believers and compromise Christian faithfulness and witness. It is also a question about which the Bible has a great deal of wisdom.
This cohort will explore a richly biblical, nuanced and constructive way of engaging cultural issues from a biblical point of view. It will introduce and apply tools of cultural critique drawn from biblical texts with the aim of helping Christians to reach beyond our fragmented, sectarian cultural moment in order to confront, console and complete the modern world’s deepest values and stories.
The distinctive framework for understanding and engaging with modern and contemporary culture in this course uses the whole biblical storyline and seeks to learn from all the key moments of biblical revelation. It takes particular inspiration from Augustine’s City of God, probably the most significant and influential work in the history of Christian cultural and political thought outside the Bible.
Based on Chris’s book Biblical Critical Theory, the sessions take participants on a journey from Genesis to Revelation, digging up precious biblical gold along the way and cumulatively forming a full-orbed biblical engagement with the modern world. A major premise of the sessions is that it is not enough to explain the Bible to the culture; we must also explain the culture through the Bible.
Those who sign up for this cohort will receive free copies of:
Biblical Critical Theory – Christopher Watkin
Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation – Collin Hansen
Secular Creed – Rebecca McLaughlin
* Physical copies shipped to continental U.S. PDF version emailed to registrants outside of the continental U.S.
* We are unable to offer refunds for Keller Center cohorts.
*This will be a larger version of the same cohort that sold out the day we launched The Keller Center. We have reduced the price from $249 to $199 to reflect the difference in class size (capped at 300). The course will still be interactive but questions will be sent to the chat where they are culled and curated by the cohort hosts. We will still try to get to as many of the constellations of questions from this larger but we want to be clear about the size difference and format tweak.
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