Chris Watkin: We Need to Use the Whole Bible

Author Chris Watkins encourages us to contend for the gospel with the full resources of the whole Bible.

Chris also recommended an article by Mike Raiter on congregational singing: The Slow Kill of Congregational Singing.

Jonathan Holt is the Senior Minister at Lanyon Valley Anglican Church, which Jonathan and his wife Ruth helped plant in 2006. Jonathan also serves on the TGCA Council.

Chris Watkin grew up in Yorkshire and now lives in Melbourne with his wife and family. He is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Arts Faculty at Monash University where he leads a research project into the contemporary social contract. In addition to publishing academic articles and books in French philosophy he seeks to bring philosophy and theology into conversation in volumes like Thinking Through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 as Tools of Cultural Critique, and theological explorations of Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze in the P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series. He keeps a blog about theology, philosophy and culture at thinkingthroughthebible.com (Twitter: @thinking_bible), and also maintains a personal website and Twitter account. In November 2022 Chris’s book Biblical Critical Theory will be published by Zondervan Academic. The book sweeps through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, showing how it provides fresh insights into modernity’s toughest problems and deepest longings.