Rikk E. Watts is Professor of New Testament at Regent College. Previously, he served as an instructor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Wycliffe Hall at Oxford University, La Trobe University, and the Bible College of Victoria (now the Melbourne School of Theology). He is author of Isaiah's New Exodus in Mark, as well as a founding member of On Being, an Australian Christian magazine.
Doing "Theology" as Design - As God Originally Intended?
Speaker(s): Rikk Watts
Date: Summer 2018
Length: 1h 20m
Product ID: RGDL4802AE
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The last five centuries have seen rapid change and expansion of human knowledge and endeavour unparalleled in the history of the planet. A strong case can be made that this change was fuelled to a large extent by the West's abandonment of the static worldview of classical antiquity for the worldview presupposed by Christianity. Central to this shift is the opening up of 'the design space.' Absent of any notion of Platonic forms and born of Christianity's astonishingly high view of human agency, this space is characterized instead by human freedom and creativity in manipulating the material world in ways that enhance life. I will argue that the Bible is concerned with shaping, through experience and persuasion, human agents as God's designers. We will also explore what this shift in perspective might mean, not just for the content of our 'talk about God,' but how we do it and to what end.
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