Book Reviews
Part 9 (of 15): Peterson on White Privilege
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson, Racial Reconciliation, Reconciliation, White Privilege
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…
Part 8 (of 15): Race and Social Hierarchies
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
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…
Part 7 (of 15): Hierarchies, Masculinity, and Femininity
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
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…
Part 6 (of 15): Evolutionary Conservatism
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
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…
Part 5 (of 15): The Delicate Dance
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
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…
Part 4 (of 15): Evaluating Peterson’s Faith
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
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…
Part 3 (of 15): The Leap of Faith
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
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…
Part 2 (of 15): Can ‘Being’ Be Justified?
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
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…
Part 1 (of 15): Introduction — What’s Up With Jordan Peterson?
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, 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…
Podcast: What Are Your Thoughts on Jordan Peterson?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Greg and Dan critique Jordan Peterson’s book “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.” Here is a link to that book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0358.mp3
The Patriot’s Bible — Really?
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Tags: Book Reviews, Idolatry, National Idolatry, Patriot's Bible, Political Idolatry
Have you ever seen the Saturday Night Live skit entitled “Really? With Seth and Amy”? Sometimes it’s pretty funny. I was thinking that perhaps the best way to get through my critique of The American…
Podcast: A Flexible Faith: The Bonnie Kristian Interview
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Dan interviews Bonnie Kristian on her new book: A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0344.mp3
Podcast: What Are You Reading Now?
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Greg discusses what he is reading now that Crucifixion of the Warrior God and CrossVision are completed (Links Below). http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0251.mp3 Books: The Training of KX12 and The Physics of Theism
A Response to “Are Greg Boyd and I Reading the Same Old Testament?”
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Tags: Book Reviews, Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Collin Cornell has recently published a review of Cross Vision (CV) and, less directly, of Crucifixion of the Warrior God (CWG) in The Christian Century. In this post I will respond to the two major objections…
Greg’s Review of Changing Your Mind by Victor Copan
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Tags: Book Reviews, Discipleship, Imagination
Several months ago Victor Copan introduced himself to me at the end of a Woodland Hills Church service. He told me about his recently published book, Changing Your Mind. “I know you’re into spiritual disciplines…
God of Sense and Traditions of Non-Sense
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Tags: Book Reviews, Cruciform Theology, freedom, Open Theism, Problem of Evil, Theodicy, Warfare Worldview
Topics: The Problem of Evil
As the title suggests, in his book, God’s Problem: How The Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question – Why We Suffer, Bart Ehrman argues that the Bible has nothing compelling to say about…
Part 4: An Alternative Cross-Centered Approach
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Tags: Bible, Book Reviews, Cruciform Theology, Derek Flood, Disarming Scripture, Jesus, Magic Eye, OT Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Image by Karl Pang via Flickr As I mentioned in Part II of this review, I am deeply appreciative of the fact that Flood grasps the centrality of enemy-loving non-violence in Jesus’ revelation of God. And…