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We Who Wrestle with God
Perceptions of the Divine
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To find links to Dr Peterson's work his social media his new book we who wrestle with God as well as a link to the Peterson Academy please see the show note captions.
Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 2024 Listen at 3:48:35 The best things said about it
So much your book comes at a really interesting time in my life personally your book is called we who wrestle with God and it's my belief and suspicion that there's a lot of people wrestling with God at the moment.
We’re adapted to the social world, and that’s one of the avenues I explored in my book 'We Who Wrestle With God.'.
Jordan Peterson On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Nov 2024 Um I mean for example I've I've um I I counted up in your book um we who wrestle with God the number of references to Cain.
Richard Dawkins The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Oct 2024 Jordan moved on; he’s now focusing on projects with Ark, thinking about God, working on his new book, We Who Wrestle with God.
Chris Williamson Modern Wisdom · Dec 2023 Where and when it comes up
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We Who Wrestle with God by Jordan B. Peterson is a philosophical and psychological examination of major biblical stories and their enduring relevance for understanding human nature, morality, and individual responsibility. The book received high praise and deep discussion across prominent podcast appearances. Dr. Mehmet Oz, speaking on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, shared that he had read an early draft of the manuscript and declared it to be Peterson's most important work. Andrew Huberman dedicated substantial time on Huberman Lab to exploring the book, reminding listeners to find it in the show notes and examining how Peterson utilizes ancient biblical narratives as a psychological framework to guide personal decision-making and achieve positive life outcomes. On The Diary of a CEO, Steven Bartlett engaged Peterson in extensive discussions about the themes within the book, noting that it arrived at a timely cultural moment when many individuals are grappling with existential questions, individualism, and the modern search for meaning. Bartlett also referenced the book's treatment of hedonism and cultural values while shifting the dialogue toward contemporary psychological and societal struggles, cementing the work as a focal point for modern philosophical inquiry.
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Andrew Huberman to find links to Dr Peterson's work his social media his new book we who wrestle with God as well as a link… 5
“and as Dr Peterson emphasizes in his new book we who wrestle with God he emphasizes the use of story in this case biblical stories to understand oneself and to best guide one's actions towards the most positive and generative outcomes”
“delighted to have you here and want to talk about elements within your new book yeah also some elements within your previous books and within that mind of yours generally as a framework for that”
“now the reason I lay out this framework as opposed to starting with a question is because there are so many amazing questions that you ask in this book you know we who wrestle with God”
“now the reason I lay out this framework as opposed to starting with a question is because there are so many amazing questions that you ask in this book you know we who wrestle with God I mean trying to wrap our arms in Minds around this huge set of questions”
“to find links to Dr Peterson's work his social media his new book we who wrestle with God as well as a link to the Peterson Academy please see the show note captions”
Dr. Mehmet Oz Well, this is a good time to give you this book that I think as you know, and you were very kindly you shar… 1
“Well, this is a good time to give you this book that I think as you know, and you were very kindly you shared a draft with me early on. Probably it was January, February, very early and I remember going through it and I'll tell you right now in a nonpatronizing way, uh, this may be your most important”
Chris Williamson Jordan moved on; he’s now focusing on projects with Ark, thinking about God, working on his new book, We Wh… 3
“Jordan moved on; he’s now focusing on projects with Ark, thinking about God, working on his new book, We Who Wrestle with God.”
“I have a question about your new book coming out next year; I haven’t seen any of it.”
“we who wrestle with God is the name of the book we who wrestle with God yeah”
Steven Bartlett so much your book comes at a really interesting time in my life personally your book is called we who wrest… 3
“so much your book comes at a really interesting time in my life personally your book is called we who wrestle with God and it's my belief and suspicion that there's a lot of people wrestling with God at the moment”
“much your book comes at a really interesting time in my life personally your book is called we who wrestle with God and it's my belief and suspicion that there's a lot of people wrestling with God at the moment”
“you talk about headism in your book um we who wrestle with God pornography is this a bad thing”
Jordan Peterson We’re adapted to the social world, and that’s one of the avenues I explored in my book 'We Who Wrestle With… 1
“We’re adapted to the social world, and that’s one of the avenues I explored in my book 'We Who Wrestle With God.'”
Richard Dawkins um I mean for example I've I've um I I counted up in your book um we who wrestle with God the number of ref… 1
“um I mean for example I've I've um I I counted up in your book um we who wrestle with God the number of references to Cain”
Theo Von but so far there's a part in uh chapter three um where you talk about fear and you talk about the fog 1
“but so far there's a part in uh chapter three um where you talk about fear and you talk about the fog”
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“So this tour is an explication and a further exploration of the themes in my newest book, which is called We Who Resa with God. And it will be published in November.”
“The book we who wrestle with God is about stories.”
“this tour is a explication and a further exploration of the themes in my newest book which is called we who wrestle with God and it will be published in November.”
“The the book, we who wrestle with God, is about stories. And the biblical library that I'm assessing in this book is a collection of stories”
“really, probably culminating to some degree in this new book, the topic of this tour, we who wrestle with God.”
“Tonight we're going to investigate what it means to believe I would say and we're going to do that in relationship to the biblical stories which is what this book that the tour is based on is about.”
“I'll be hitting the road again with Tammy and my crew in November when my book comes out, but this is the end of the first run of the public events that are associated with We Who Wrestle with God.”
“Um so I have this new book, which is the name of this tour, We Who Wrestle with God, and it's a great joke on the New York Times that it hit number one on the best-seller list, which I'm quite grateful for, let's say.”
“And that's outlined in We Who Wrestle with God, and we got a little bit farther tonight in its investigation than I did in the book.”
“I would like to think that the work that I've done particularly in my book Maps of Meaning in We Who Wrestle with God, I'm working on that as well in a new book called The Foundation of the World, which is an analysis of the gospel stories, is a continuation of that integration tradition.”
“most recently he authored we who wrestle with God perceptions of the Divine”
“so for example one of the things I talk about in my book we who wrestle with God is the symbolic image of the Shepherd in the Old Testament”
“so in this new book I wrote that we who wrestle with God one of the things I pointed out was that the god of the Old Testament and this continues in the New Testament as well is characterized very fundamentally in multiple ways”
“I investigated that a little bit in we who wrestle with God anthropologically I mean part of the reason for that was well imagine that there are relatively isolated cities and a stranger comes in with Wares to trade”
“and by the way I mean I you have a copy of my book here we wrestle with god um one of the ways that God is characterized and I Des this in the book is as the spirit of calling right right so”
“that's why I wrote this book is to indicate well at least in part well what the stories are and also what what they mean”
“so the first is I just published this book we who wrestle with God”
“So, the first is, I just published this book, We Who Wrestle with God. It hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list, so I'm kind of happy about that for five different reasons.”
“I'm going to give you this book right now so this is the new book I wrote We who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to give you this book right now; so this is the new book I wrote, 'We Who Wrestle with God.' It's a good time to give this to you because I've made other arguments about the relationship between science and the divine, let's say, in this book.”
“I tried in this book not to put forward any propositions that I couldn't justify scientifically, but I'm not making a scientific case for God. I think the case— I think the rapport between science and religion is not going to be found in the use of materialist reductionism to prove the existence of a designer.”
“so for example in this in this book and we who wrestle with God I'm one of the stories I analyze is the story of Abraham”
“and I outlin that in in in this book we who wrestle with God Eric neyman Carl Yung Mach eliat a host of others outlined the patterns of religious thinking”
“my new book we who wrestle with God is part of that Enterprise”
“My new book, 'We Who Wrestle With God,' contributes to this effort, and over the next year, we'll see how it continues to evolve.”
“It looks like I have new book deals in progress for the next two books, including a continuation of the arguments I started with 'We Who Wrestle With God,' focusing on the story of Job and the Gospels, similar to the Gospel seminar at Daily Wire.”
“I review them in this new book I wrote on we who wrestle with God there's a lot of reference to the dark tetrad personality constellations”
“I review them in this new book I wrote on We Who Wrestle with God. There’s a lot of references to the dark tetrad personality constellations and their political manifestations.”
“the tour deals with the issues that I raised in my new book which came out on November 19th uh it's called we who wrestle with God”
“the tour deals with the issues that I raised in my new book which came out on November 19th uh it's called we who wrestle with God and in that book I take apart a sequence of Old Testament stories”
“The tour deals with the issues I raised in my new book, which came out on November 19th.”
“It's called 'We Who Wrestle With God,' and in that book, I take apart a sequence of Old Testament stories and explain at least part of what they mean, as far as I'm concerned.”
“The first is that I published this book, 'We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine.' It came out on November 19th, and it's number one on Amazon right now, which I'm pretty happy about.”
“so my wife and I are going back out on tour from my new book we who wrestle with God I'm going to be walking through a variety of biblical stories now the postmodern types and the Neo marxists they think the story is one of power and that is a dangerous Story”
“so yeah this is my new book which is coming out on the 19th and so we who wrestle with God and so um I'm making a case in this book fundamentally that well we talked about the relationship between story and perception”
“So, yeah, this is my new book which is coming out on the 19th: 'We Who Wrestle with God.'”
“one of the themes that is developed in this new book is the notion that so when when you're introduced to someone you'll tell them a story about who you are”
“that's one of the Avenues that I had explored in we who wrestle with God and there's more in the abrahamic story”
“one of the things I try to do in this new technology we're developing with essay but also as a theme in we who wrestle with God is to point out that you can learn to watch”
“because and I tried to outline in this in this new book is that I think that we're at the point where our scientific discoveries in fields like cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary biology can be seen to dovetail with our traditional understanding of high order ethics”
“new book out in November we who wrestle with God we got glimpses into it today”
“so my wife and I are going back out on tour for my new book we who wrestle with God”
“So my wife and I are going back out on tour for my new book, 'We Who Wrestle with God.' I'm going to be walking through a variety of biblical stories.”
“Here's a thought you tell me what you think about this so I have this new book coming out called we who wrestle with God and one of the stories that I deal with in that book is the story of Abraham”
“I have this new book coming out called 'We Who Wrestle with God,' and one of the stories that I deal with in that book is the story of Abraham. Yeah, so I want to just delve into that a bit in relationship to identity, and I want you to tell me what you think about this.”
“I write about why he's in a whale too and we who wrestle with god”
“I just got this today; this is coming out November 19th: We Who Wrestle with God.”
“we who wrestle with god um one of the cases I make in this and I'm I'm interested to know what you think about this”
“I mean one of the things I've learned not least through analysis of the biblical narratives which is partly what we who wrestle with God does is that the ethos that upon which is Society has founded”
“so in we who wrestle with God I take apart this story of Adam and Eve in more depth than I've managed previously”
“So in 'We Who Wrestle with God,' I take apart this story of Adam and Eve in more depth than I've managed previously, delving into the notion that the fundamental sin of both Adam and Eve is one of pride, right?”
“so my wife and I are going back out on tour from my new book we who wrestle with God”
“So, my wife and I are going back out on tour for my new book, "We Who Wrestle with God."”
“"We Who Wrestle With God" and it's of the same sort.”
“So in one of the stories that I cover in "We Who Wrestle With God," which I only recently begun to take apart say in the last two years, is the story of Abraham.”
“That's why I called the book "We Who Wrestle With God," you welcome the struggle.”
“um I have a book coming out in November called we who wrestle with God and jimie and I are walking parallel paths in many ways”
“yes it's coming out in November oh so really soon yeah very soon yeah We Who Wrestle with God it's called and it deals with many of the issues that we're talking about”
“well one of one of the things that I wrote about I have a new book coming out in November and I actually Drew somewhat heavily on Richard Dawkins for parts of the book we who wrestle with we who wrestle with God”
“So, I've written a new book um called We Who Wrestle with God, which will be out in mid- November. And one of the things I've noted about the culture war say that's reigning between the atheists and the believers, which is an element of the culture war, uh is that the phenomenon that we're discussing is illdefined.”
“Yeah, well, you see that that's very interesting observation because I've just written a new book called We Who Wrestle With God and it comes out November 12th.”
“well he made this for my tour and so we who wrestle with God when I do my tour I want to talk to Jack”
“and that's because I was out on tour with my new book for my new book which is called we who wrestle with God which we will talk about today I hope”
“and so I've written a lot about that in in this new book we we who wrestle with God”
“and I'm writing a new book which will come out in November called we who wrestle with God and I'll cover that in this”
“I have a new book that i'm working on called we who wrestle with god”
“that's one of the passages that I've concentrated a lot in this new book that I've just finished uh uh we who wrestle with God”
“it's a hypothesis that I've developed fairly extensively but I'm working on in detail in in the new book that I'm working on right now called we who wrestle with gold”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, set to be released in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle with God.' I'm looking forward to this.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024, We Who Wrestle With God.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, which is due out in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle with God.' I'm looking forward to this.”
“the book I've just published or will publish in November the one I'm touring about is the book is we who wrestle with God and I make an elaborate case for this”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, which will be out in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle With God.'”
“not least because I'm trying to finish up my most recent book”
“I do know this - I was thinking about coming along, although that became impossible at the present time for a variety of reasons, not least because I'm trying to finish up my most recent book.”
“now I'm finishing up a book at the moment called we who wrestle with God and it's an elaborated analysis of the proclivity of foundational narratives to encode that pattern of radical reciprocity”
“Now I'm finishing up a book at the moment called We Who Wrestle With God, and it's an elaborated analysis of the proclivity of foundational narratives to encode that pattern of radical reciprocity and expand its purview and its depth of representation across time.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, which is set to be released in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle with God.'”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, 'We Who Wrestle with God,' which will be out in November 2024. I'm really looking forward to this.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, which will be out in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle with God.' I'm looking forward to this.”
“so with regard to the burning bush so I've been working on this new book we who wrestle with God and I've been trying to map out the semantic space”
“With regards to the burning bush: I’ve been working on this new book, 'We Who Wrestle with God,' and I've been trying to map out the semantic space.”
“I'm going to use this tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, which releases in November 2024, titled We Who Wrestle with God.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, out in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle with God.'”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, set to be released in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle with God.' I'm looking forward to this.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024, We Who Wrestle With God.”
“I've been writing this new book called We Who Wrestle With God and I'm looking at the psychological significance of the symbolic landscape at the base of our culture...”
“I've been writing this new book called 'We Who Wrestle with God,' and I'm looking at the psychological significance of the symbolic landscape at the base of our culture.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, which is set to be released in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle With God.' I'm looking forward to this.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, 'We Who Wrestle with God,' which comes out in November 2024. I'm looking forward to this.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024, We Who Wrestle With God.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, "We Who Wrestle with God," which comes out in November 2024. I'm looking forward to this.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 We who wrestle with God.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, which is out in November 2024. The book is titled 'We Who Wrestle with God'.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, 'We Who Wrestle with God', which is set to release in November 2024.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, set to be released in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle with God.' I'm looking forward to this.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, titled 'We Who Wrestle with God', which will be released in November 2024.”
“so I'm writing this new book called we who wrestle with God and one of its presumptions is that I suppose this is something I just talked about with John verv too”
“Here's the first thing I've been thinking about: I'm writing this new book called 'We Who Wrestle with God', and one of its presumptions, I suppose, is something I just talked about with John Vervaeke.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I've been writing about um I've been writing this book we who wrestle with God as you know and I've been closing it up”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, "We Who Wrestle With God," which is due out in November 2024. I'm looking forward to this.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, which is set to be released in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle With God.' I'm looking forward to this.”
“I've been writing quite a bit in this new book I'm finishing up, 'We Who Wrestle With God,' and it will be the subject of my next tour. I've been writing a lot about how we come to distinguish truth from falsehood in general in our lives, within the scientific enterprise, and in matters of faith.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, 'We Who Wrestle With God,' which will be out in November 2024.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I'm going to use the tour to discuss some of the ideas I've been working on in my forthcoming book, 'We Who Wrestle with God,' which will be out in November 2024. I'm looking forward to this.”
“so I spent a lot of time recently writing this book we who wrestle with God and one of the chapters in that book deals with the story of Abraham”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, "We Who Wrestle With God," which is due out in November 2024.”
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on for my forthcoming book, which will be out in November 2024, titled 'We Who Wrestle with God.'”
“my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“One of the things I've been deriving, I'm writing this book on the biblical corpus called 'We Who Wrestle with God', and I've been trying to understand the nature of the ethos being presented.”
“he's got this new book we who wrestle with God”
“I'm I'm writing a book at the moment called we who wrestle with God and one of the things Christ says to people continually is to not damage their vision”
“I'm writing a book at the moment called we who wrestle with God”
“I was writing I'm writing this book called We Who Wrestle with God.”
“So I mentioned earlier that I'm writing this book um we who wrestle with God.”
“I mentioned earlier that I’m writing this book, 'We Who Wrestle with God,' and part of it is an analysis of different biblical stories.”
“And of course previous to that, because I'm writing a new book called 'We Who Wrestle with God.'”
“so I've been spending a lot of time walking through the biblical stories recently because I'm writing a new book which is called we who wrestle with God and it should be out in February”
“so I'm writing this book called we who wrestle with God and um I'm obviously animated by The Same Spirit so to speak that you are because the books parallel each other quite remarkably”
“So, I've been working on this idea in my new book. Um, it's called We Who Wrestle with God. And I've been basing this work on the proposition that there has to be a unifying animating spirit.”
“I've been working on this idea in my new book; it's called 'We Who Wrestle with God.'”
“well I think I think we this I'm writing a new book called we who wrestle with God and that's really what it's about”
“i've been working on a new book uh entitled we who wrestle with god”
“i am working on a new book it's tentatively titled we who wrestle with god and i took that title from the biblical lectures when because i discovered for my i discovered so that other people didn't know this that the word israel meant we who wrestle with god”




