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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

We Who Wrestle with God: Book Review

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jordan Peterson is one of the leading intellectuals of our day. He is a mega-selling author, psychologist, and popular influencer. In this discussion, Sean and Scott review his latest book We Who Wrestle with God. They discuss key lessons and insights from the book, but also help listeners think biblically about some of Peterson's psychological insights. ==========Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith and Culture is a podcast from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, which o...

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Well-known Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson has come out with a brand new book

0:06.2

entitled We Who Ressel With God, Subtitles of the Divine.

0:11.7

Sean, you and I have wrestled seriously with this book.

0:14.9

This is a massive tone, but lots of really good insights and I think lots to talk about in terms of our

0:23.9

interaction with him.

0:24.9

So let's jump in here.

0:26.3

First, tell us, tell our audience here, who is Jordan Peterson?

0:30.4

In case you've had your head in the sand for the last decade and have never heard of him,

0:34.6

who is he and why is he so popular?

0:38.3

Jordan Peterson is a psychologist. He's a mega best-selling author, speaker,

0:44.3

influencer. He's from Canada. And he's really become one of the leading voices today

0:51.3

that you might say, this might be too simplistic, but kind of the anti-woke

0:56.0

crowd that's pushed back against certain ideas that have popped up, he's emerged as this

1:03.7

voice.

1:04.8

And I think part of his popularity, number one, he's just brilliant.

1:09.9

He's brilliant.

1:10.7

There's many times reading his book, hearing him speak where you have these like aha, light bulb go on kind of moments.

1:17.5

That happened regularly with this book.

1:19.2

And he just sees things away a lot of people don't.

1:22.3

I think that attributes to it.

1:24.8

Second, he's bold.

1:26.8

He partly launched into kind of public awareness, I don't know,

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