Ep. 1604 Understanding Jordan Peterson's Theology
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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Peterson’s insights into the Scriptures have encouraged and inspired millions, reawakening a highly secular population to the wonders of ancient theological wisdom.
As a trained theologian myself, what I’ve found so fascinating about Jordan Peterson’s YouTube series on the Bible is how much it resonates with insights from the ancient Orthodox Christian tradition, and it’s that interface that I want to bring to life for you in this episode.
Highlights:
● “What makes Peterson so significant today is he sees ancient wisdom, the ancient wisdom of the Scriptures, as being a profound and perpetual source of timeless meaning and significance for our humanity. In other words, the fact that no matter what we do, no matter how secular we claim to be, nevertheless, these biblical stories continue to endure and inspire and evoke astonishing works of human creativity and imagination.”
● “The important point here is that the new science that’s emerging is not rediscovering religion simply because of some new philosophically-derived tolerance of religion that science can patronizingly acknowledge; rather, it’s science itself discovering fundamentally religious truths inherent in the very nature of the physical world that it’s studying.”
● “Christ, in the New Testament, is identified as that divine principle, hence why we have four gospels, which reveal that the cosmos is being recalibrated around Christ, who is the Logos, the one in whom all things hold together. So when the early Church read Genesis, they read Genesis, in many respects, as the very first Incarnation of Christ the Logos, creation is the original material manifestation of the divine order of the Logos.”
● “When the cosmos falls through humanity’s sin, God rescues us how? By emptying himself and becoming human, and going down into Hades and rising again, seated at the right hand of the Father, to draw the whole of the cosmos back into eternal fellowship with himself. So, when the cosmos falls, it’s not like God has to do something entirely new or different. This vision of Trinitarian love and delight, means that when the cosmos falls, God simply does what he has always been doing, now and forever and unto the ages of ages.”
Timestamps:
[00:49] Peterson’s introduction on God and the Bible as a ‘mystery’
[04:08] On a very important notion that scholars refer to as ‘cosmic piety’
[06:56] On science and religion
[09:38] Interpreting the Book of Genesis in light of the New Testament
[14:13] Peterson’s description of the Christian vision of the Trinity
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| 0:00.0 | Are we seeing the revitalization of conservative civilization, all over the world has been a massive backlash against globalization, its leftist leadership, and its anti-cultural liberal values, and it's just the beginning. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Dr. Steve Turley. I believe the liberal globalist world is at its brink and a new conservative age is rising. |
| 0:27.0 | Every day, as we examine these worldwide trends, discover answers to today's toughest challenges, and together learn to live in the present, in light of even better things to come. |
| 0:39.0 | This is Turley Talks. |
| 0:41.0 | The person who has been hailed as a single most influential biblical interpreter in the world today is ironically not a pastor or theologian or biblical scholar. |
| 0:59.0 | He's a Canadian psychologist with no formal theological training, and yet his insights into the scriptures have encouraged and inspired millions, reawakening a highly secular population to the wonders of ancient theological wisdom. |
| 1:14.0 | As a trained theologian myself, what I've found so fascinating about Jordan Peterson's YouTube series on the Bible is how much resonates with insights from the ancient Orthodox Christian tradition, |
| 1:26.0 | and it's that interface that I want to bring the life for you in this video. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm going to highlight some of Peterson's key observations in the very first video of his series, and illuminate those observations with even more stunning insights from the riches of the Orthodox Christian tradition. |
| 1:43.0 | So make sure to like, comment, subscribe, and let's dive right in. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm approaching this whole scenario, this, the biblical stories, as if they're a mystery, fundamentally, because they are. |
| 1:54.0 | There's a lot we don't understand about them, we don't understand how they came about, we don't really understand how they were put together. |
| 2:01.0 | We don't understand why they had such an unbelievable impact on civilization, we don't understand how people could have believed them, we don't understand what it means that we don't believe them now, or even what it would mean if we did believe them. |
| 2:15.0 | And then on top of all that, there's the additional problem, which isn't specific to me, but it's certainly relevant to me that no matter how educated you are, you're not educated enough to discuss the psychological significance of the biblical stories, but I'm going to do my best. |
| 2:34.0 | Now what's so interesting here is that Peterson introduces this whole series on God and the Bible by invoking this notion of mystery. |
| 2:43.0 | And why that's interesting is that the Greek word, mysterious, actually means to reveal, in other words, by approaching God and the Bible as a mystery, Peterson seems to, in fact, miss the fact that the Greek word, mysterious, actually refers to reality that's otherwise hidden. |
| 3:03.0 | But now is being revealed for us to encounter and indeed to know and embrace. |
| 3:08.0 | So in this theological sense, a mystery is not something like a riddle that has to be solved and where the ones have to solve it, rather it's a hidden reality that we now have access to. |
| 3:20.0 | And it's ironic because though we missed it, I think that this more theological notion of mystery, mysterious, is actually what makes Peterson so significant today. |
| 3:31.0 | He sees ancient wisdom, the ancient wisdom of the scriptures as being a profound and perpetual source of timeless meaning and significance for our humanity. |
| 3:40.0 | In other words, the fact that no matter what we do, no matter how secular we claim to be, nevertheless these biblical stories continue to endure and inspire and evoke astonishing works of human creativity and imagination, it all means that the scriptures offer timeless nourishment for our souls. |
| 4:01.0 | And as a psychologist, Peterson's revealing to us the source of that timeless nourishment and psychological health. |
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