Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Episode: Listen and Weep | Eric Metaxas | EP 371
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"We discuss his most recent book, A Letter to the American Church, which argues that it's a betrayal of faith to stay silent in the face of tyranny."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"This most recent book, which is my shortest book, A Letter to the American Church, is the first time I have ever written something specifically only for those who claim to be Christians."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"I don't know how some people will take this, but I've never felt that God called me to write something the way He did this book."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"You know, if you think of the title A Letter to the American Church, it would be natural to think what kind of hubris are we talking about here, that somebody would dare to write a letter to the American church as though he's a modern-day Paul or something like that."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"I don't mean this in any mystical sense, but I was very sober-minded about writing something with the title A Letter to the American Church."
Bonhoeffer
Buy on Amazon"The reason I wrote it, in a nutshell, is that in 2010, I came out with my longest book, a biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor who was involved in the plot to kill Hitler."
Bonhoeffer
Buy on Amazon"It was impossible for me to avoid the thought that just as the silence of the church in Germany opened the door to hell on Earth, which we now know because we know what happened, and of course, I documented it in my Bonhoeffer book and in this new booklet to the American church."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"It was impossible for me to avoid the thought that just as the silence of the church in Germany opened the door to hell on Earth, which we now know because we know what happened, and of course, I documented it in my Bonhoeffer book and in this new booklet to the American church."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"But the thesis of this book, A Letter to the American Church, is that precisely as the German church was silent, and precisely as that opened the door to hell to every kind of evil, it is the silence of the church in America now that is similarly opening the door to hellish things on a number of fronts."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"The only time I felt something more palpable of God's inspiration was in writing A Letter to the American Church."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"But as I say, it kind of became pointed with A Letter to the American Church because of the seriousness of what I was writing."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"And that's why in A Letter to the American Church, I'm writing specifically to those people, Christians who claim to believe in the God of the Bible, to believe that Jesus defeated death on the cross."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"One of the theses of my book, A Letter to the American Church, is that just as the German church drifted tragically in its conception of what is faith, so too the American church has drifted."
The cost of discipleship
Buy on Amazon"So I thought to myself that idea, Bonhoeffer wrote a book, The Cost of Discipleship, where he famously talks about cheap grace, because the excuse given by the German theologians and pastors at the time was that, 'Well, it's all about grace; it's less about what we do.'"
Bonhoeffer
Buy on Amazon"You know, my Bonhoeffer book, which is a 600-page biography of a German pastor who saw these things happening and knew that he must speak out against it."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"In the course of writing my new book, the shortest book, 'Letter to the American Church,' I came to the conclusion that as horrific as it is to think about what the silence of the German church led to, the silence of the American church now, if we do not repent and begin to speak out boldly against every one of these things, the result will be worse, even if possible, than what happened in the Holocaust."
Letter to the American Church
Buy on Amazon"But I'm talking in this last book, Letter to the American Church, specifically to those who already claim to believe this, and I say, listen, if you believe this, you're on the hook for actually leading the way in showing people what courage looks like, in showing people that no, there is this thing called truth, and we are made to speak truth and to act truth."