About the Author

Christopher Watkin (PhD, University of Cambridge) is senior lecturer in French studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a scholar with an international reputation in the area of modern and contemporary European thought, atheism, and the relationship between the Bible and philosophy. His published work runs the spectrum from academic monographs on contemporary philosophy to books written for general readers, both Christian and secular, and include Difficult Atheism, From Plato to Postmodernism, Great Thinkers: Jacques Derrida, and others.

Reviews

'[Chris Watkin] maps a path out of some of the most fundamental impasses of our time . . . Urgent and weighty, Biblical Critical Theory is . . . simply, a tremendously exciting read.'
*NATASHA MOORE, Centre for Public Christianity*

'A book that I have been eagerly anticipating for years. ... My prayers are that this book will bear much intellectual and spiritual fruit in many lives over the decades ahead.'
*TIMOTHY KELLER, founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York*

'A brilliant and unique book . . . It is the most biblical, up-to-date, and comprehensive analysis of contemporary Western culture that I know of.'
*JOSHUA CHATRAW, Center for Public Christianity*

'A seminal text for us . . . A foundation and frame for years to come. Absolutely essential reading'
*DAN STRANGE, Crosslands Forum*

'An important update of Augustine's City of God, a proposal for making biblical sense of what is happening in contemporary culture.'
*KEVIN J. VANHOOZER, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School*

'Biblical Critical Theory doesn't just give us answers; it helps us to come up with better questions . . . An innovative and immensely fruitful paradigm.'
*MICHAEL HORTON, Westminster Seminary California*

'Incisive, accessible, and astonishing in scope . . . '
*DOLORES G. MORRIS, University of South Florida*

'This book is a feast. Chris Watkin accomplishes what few have.'
*WILLIAM EDGAR, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia*

'This book is a must-read for all serious thinkers.'
*SAM CHAN, City Bible Forum*

'This is a magnificent achievement. It is a must-read . . . Here is a total defence and commendation of Christianity like no other. Buy it. Read it. Ponder it. Pass it on.'
*JOHN DICKSON, author and historian*