Jordan Peterson
Part 20 (of 20) — Peterson’s Appeal
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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…
Part 19 (of 20) — Peterson’s Most Controversial Interview
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Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life For the final two posts of my Peterson series, I’d like to evaluate Peterson’s most controversial interview and then close this series with a discussion on the possible…
Part 18 (of 20) — Jordan Peterson on Jesus
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Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “What does [Jesus’ teaching to love your enemies] mean? Learn, from the success of your enemies; listen…to their critique, so that you can glean from their opposition whatever…
Part 17 (of 20)- Jordan Peterson on God
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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…
Part 16 (of 19): The Archetypal Christ
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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…
Part 15 (of 19?) — Making Sacrifice
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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…
Part 14 (of 15) —Taking Responsibility (Part B)
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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….
Part 13 (of 15)— Taking Responsibility (Part A)
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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…
Podcast: Fresh Thoughts on Greg’s Blog Series on Jordan Peterson
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Greg gives an update on his thoughts on Jordan Peterson after having written a series critiquing his book 12 Rules of Life. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0376.mp3
Part 12 (of 15): Egalitarianism and The Kingdom Community
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Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd As we saw earlier in this series (see: post 7), Peterson argues that social hierarchies among humans are as natural as they are among lobsters…
Part 11 (of 15): The Corruption of Creation
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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…
Part 10 (of 15): Who Gets To Interpret The World?
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Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd In my previous two posts (post 8 & post 9) I critically evaluated Peterson’s thinking on hierarchies, race and white privilege. In this post I’ll…
Part 9 (of 15): Peterson on White Privilege
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…