[Usyd_Classics_Events] FW: Critical Antiquities Workshop - Double Book Launch

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends of Critical Antiquities,

See below for all the details of our second workshop for Semester 2, 2023.

All best, Ben

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From: Tristan Bradshaw <tbradshaw at uow.edu.au>
Date: Wednesday, 6 September 2023 at 12:16 pm
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Subject: Critical Antiquities Workshop - Double Book Launch
Dear friends,

Please find the Zoom link and associated reading for our next Critical Antiquities Workshop. We will be holding a double book launch for Christianity as a Way of Life by Kevin Hector (University of Chicago) and Biblical Critical Theory by Chris Watkin (Monash University). We are privileged to be joined by the authors, who will introduce their books, as well as two distinguished discussants, Eric S. Gregory (Princeton University) and Alex Lefebvre (University of Sydney).

Excerpts from both books have been provided to enable greater audience participation and give some focus to the discussion. The excerpt from Hector’s book is attached and the Watkin reading can be accessed here<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BtUOCROND2uGOr16GSPapM0?domain=drive.google.com>.

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The event will take place on Zoom on Monday, September 18, 9:30-11:30am Sydney/Canberra/Melbourne/Brisbane time. Here is the starting time in other locations:

  *   Los Angeles/Vancouver: Sunday, September 17, 4:30pm
  *   Mexico City: Sunday, September 17, 5:30pm
  *   Chicago: Sunday, September 17, 6:30pm
  *   New York: Sunday, September 17, 7:30pm
  *   Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro/Santiago: Sunday, September 17, 8:30pm
  *   Dublin/Belfast/London: Monday, September 18, 12:30am
  *   Paris/Berlin/Rome/Johannesburg: Monday, September 18, 1:30am
  *   Athens/Cairo: Monday, September 18, 2:30am
  *   Beijing/Singapore/Perth: Monday, September 18, 7:30am
  *   Tokyo: Monday, September 18, 8:30am
  *   Adelaide/Darwin: Monday, September 18, 9am

Here are two blurbs about the books:

In Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher Watkin shows how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make sense of modern life and culture. Critical theories exist to critique what we think we know about reality and the social, political, and cultural structures in which we live. In doing so, they make visible the values and beliefs of a culture in order to scrutinize and change them. Biblical Critical Theory exposes and evaluates the often-hidden assumptions and concepts that shape late-modern society, examining them through the lens of the biblical story running from Genesis to Revelation. Informed by the biblical-theological structure of Saint Augustine’s magisterial work The City of God, Biblical Critical Theory shows how the patterns of the Bible’s storyline can provide incisive, fresh, and nuanced ways of intervening in today’s debates on everything from science, the arts, and politics to dignity, multiculturalism, and equality. It is not enough for Christians to explain the Bible to the culture or cultures in which we live. They must also explain the culture in which we live within the framework and categories of the Bible, revealing how the whole of the Bible sheds light on the whole of life. If Christians want to speak with a fresh, engaging, and dynamic voice in the marketplace of ideas today, they need to mine the unique treasures of the distinctive biblical storyline.

In Christianity as a Way of Life, Kevin W Hector argues that we can understand Christianity as a set of practices designed to transform one’s way of perceiving and being in the world. Hector examines practices that reorient us to God (imitation, corporate singing, eating together, friendship, and likemindedness), that transform our way of being in the world (prayer, wonder, laughter, lament, and vocation), and that reshape our way of being with others (benevolence, looking for the image of God in others, forgiveness, and activism). Taken together, the aim of these practices is to transform one’s way of perceiving and acting in the face of success and failure, risk and loss, guilt and shame, love, and loss of control. These transformations can add up to a transformation of one’s very self. To make sense of Christianity as a way of life, in turn, these practices must be understood within the context of Christian beliefs about sin, Jesus, redemption, and eternal life. Understanding them thus requires a systematic theology, which Hector offers in this clear-eyed, ambitious, and elegant interpretation of the Christian tradition.

We hope to see you there.

Best,
Tristan and Ben

Tristan Bradshaw
Lecturer, School of Liberal Arts | Co-director, Critical Antiquities Network
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University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
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