Deep Talks: Exploring Theology and Meaning Making
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
The moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt proposed in his book The Righteous Mind that humans are "90% chimpanzee and 10% bee." According to Haidt, humans have a "hive switch" that, given the right circumstances, can be switched on and move us from self-centered concerns to a euphoric sense of being connected to some larger whole.
Exploring Haidt's work and the proposal of Emile Durkheim that there's an evolutionary mechanism that psychological moves us from "the realm of the profane" to the "realm of the sacred," we'll take a look at whether or not our experiences of God in Christian worship are nothing more than this hive switch being turned on.
Plus, I'll lay out a case of why studying the science of this should actually convict Christians all the more for the need to practice what the Apostle Paul called the "discerning of spirits."
You can purchase (and please consider reviewing) my debut book Dis-Ordered: A Christian Journey Through the Problem of Evil & Suffering here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BBYBWWXR
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Ep 100: Invisible Stories Manifest in Visible Institutions (Behind the Image Leadership Podcast interview)
Ep 99: Paul Vander Klay - Did Blockbuster Video Kill Church?
Ep 98: Gods, Wizards, Witches, & the End of Secularity - HERE COMES THE NEW GODS (Part 2)
Ep 97: Fr. Kenneth Tanner- Discovering a Better Christian Story
Ep 96: Gods, Wizards, Witches, & the End of Secularity (part 1)
Ep 95: Ted Kim, John Mark McMillan, & Andy Squyres- RE-ENCHANTMENT
Ep 94: In Christ Alone? Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Part 3/Conclusion)
Ep 93: In Christ Alone? Salvation in a Pluralistic World- For the Bible Tells Me So (Part 2)
Ep 92: In Christ Alone? Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Part 1)
Ep 91: Jon Guerra- When Beauty Disarms Our Cynicism
Ep 90: Dan Kent & Paul debate Open Theism, Satan & Spiritual Warfare, & The Problem of Evil
Ep 89- Dr. John Walton- Answers in Genesis? Creation, Evolution, & The Lost Biblical World
Ep 88: The Problem of Evil Finale- The Most Beautiful of All Possible Songs
Ep 87: The Problem of Evil (Part 17)- In Conclusion | The Bible, Right-Ordered, Non-Ordered, & Dis-Ordered Suffering
Ep 86: Ted Kim- Finding the True Story in a Post-Secular, Cross-Cultural World
Ep 85: American Civil Religion- How Did We Get Here? w/ Adam Russell & The Ferment Podcast
Ep 84: The Problem of Evil- Greg Boyd & Thomas Jay Oord Conversation. Open Theism Vs. Essential Kenosis/God Can't
Ep 83: John Vervaeke - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Ep 82: The Problem of Evil (Part 16)- Open Theism
Ep 81: The Problem of Evil (Part 15)- Process Theism | Creative Solution or A New Gnosticism?
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