Greg’s Post Series on Jordan Peterson

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” by Greg Boyd Over the last two years I have, with increasing frequency, been asked what I thought of the views of this maverick Canadian thinker named Jordan…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” by Greg Boyd ~“Pain and suffering define the world. Of that, there can be no doubt.” ~ Jordan Peterson One of the things that makes Peterson’s approach to…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” by Greg Boyd I’ll begin by saying I’ve received several video clips of Jordan saying some rather outrageous and offensive things. I was, frankly, quite surprised, since I…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life  by Greg Boyd “It was in the aftermath of God’s death that the great collective horrors of Communism and Fascism sprang forth…” In the previous post I outlined…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life  by Greg Boyd “We eternally inhabit order, surrounded by chaos. We eternally occupy known territory, surrounded by the unknown.” Nowhere in 12 Rules of Life (or anywhere else…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd “If reality is that which selects, then what’s selected by that reality must in some sense be correct.” Evolutionary Wisdom As was true of Heraclitus…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd “Do male crustaceans oppress female crustaceans? Should their hierarchies be upended?” In the previous two posts we reviewed Peterson’s conception of life as a delicate…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd “The degree to which the terrible part of the world manifests itself in your life is proportionate to how insufficient you are….If you got your…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd “With their capacity for aggression strait-jacketed within a too-narrow morality, those who are only or merely compassionate and self-sacrificing…cannot call forth the genuinely righteous and…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd “If you’re not the leading man in your own drama, you’re a bit player in someone else’s.” Jordan Peterson If I had to sum up…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “If things are not going well for you – well, that might be because, as the most cynical of aphorisms has it, life sucks, and then you die….

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “There is a powerful call to proper Being in the story of the third temptation [of Jesus].  To obtain the greatest possible prize—the establishment of the Kingdom of God…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “Christ’s archetypal death exists as an example of how to accept finitude, betrayal and tyranny heroically – how to walk with God despite the tragedy of self-conscious knowledge…

Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “God, whoever or whatever he may be, is no simple granter of wishes.” Jordan Peterson In this post I would like to review and evaluate what Peterson has…

Assessing Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life Four months ago a young woman approached me after a church service, handed me 12 Rules of Life while saying, “You really needed to know what this guy is…