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Podcast: The Theology Pugcast
Episode: Deconstructing Critical Theory
Description: In today's show Glenn explains how some evangelicals have managed to climb onto the critical theory bandwagon.
He begins with a quick overview of the modernist-fundamentalist controversy of the late 19th and early 20th century, he then shows how this created a void that critical theory has recently filled.
Tom and Chris along with Glenn point out the Marxist roots of critical theory, underscoring its materialism and its agonism--i.e. "progress through violence". (That's why there's no reasoning with critical theory--words, even reason itself--are merely other means for getting your way.)
Can "progressive...