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 80: Special Q&A Episode- Paul's Journey, Defining Meaning-Making, Mind Software, Hyper-Objects & More
Ep 79: Mind Software-How Culture Programs Your Values (Part 2)
Ep 78: Mind Software- How Culture Programs Your Values (Part 1)
Ep 77: Cosmic Spiritual Powers, Hyper-Objects, and C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy
Ep 76: Paul Vander Klay- Culture War. The Jordan Peterson Moment. Faith-Killing Dinosaurs. Vervaeke, Kierkegaard, Darwin, Barth
Ep 75: The Problem of Evil (Part 14)- Karl Barth | The Chaos, The Shadow, & the Hidden God
Ep 74: The Problem of Evil (Part 13)- Frankenstein, Dinosaurs, & Darwin in the 19th Century
Ep 73: Christ & The Culture War (don't just leave republican jesus for democrat jesus)
Ep 72: Dr. Russell Moore - Truth Beyond Culture War & Reading Hero Myths in Exile
Ep 71: Dr. Andrew Root - Secular Pastors? Why Ministry in the Meaning Crisis Is So Difficult
Ep 70: Everyone (Yes, even Richard Dawkins) Believes in God. "Does God Exist?" is Dead.
Ep 69: The Problem of Evil (Part 12)- Friedrich Schleiermacher & Evil as an Obstacle to "God-Consciousness"
Ep 68: How Theology Starts Revolutions & Why We Need to Train for What's to Come
Ep 67: The Problem of Evil (Part 11)- The Limits of Reason | Deism & Immanuel Kant
Ep 66: Dr. Dwight Hopkins- Cultural Theology & the Good News
Ep 65: The Problem of Evil (Part 10)- Is This the Best Possible World? Leibniz's Theodicy
Ep 64: Why Horror Films & Nihilistic Comedies like "Rick and Morty" Are on the Rise- with JR. Forasteros
Ep 63: When Statues Fall- The Battle of the Gods, Revisited
Ep 62- The Q Conspiracy: QAnon, Trump, & the American Church with Bonnie Kristian
Ep 61: Adam Russell- Transcendent Experiences, Psychedelics, & Sex
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