BIBLICAL CRITICAL THEORY:
How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense
of Modern Life and Culture
By Christopher Watkin
Zondervan. 624 pages. £34.40
ISBN 978 0 310 128 724
For those of us who advocate the imperative of Biblically faithful cultural critique and construction, Chris Watkins’ Biblical Critical Theory (BCT ) has been garnering no end of praise, and generating a great deal of giddiness.
Rightly so. It’s big, it’s bold, it’s beautifully written and it has arrived not a moment too soon, as we try and make sense of our bewildering late-modern world and offer a big, bold and beautiful alternative.