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Madness and Religious Experience with Richard Saville-Smith

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The Ethics of Listening to Religious Psychosis

In the 20th century, there was this huge effort from Denmark and France in America and Norway of psychiatrists trying to write off Jesus as mad. So you get a whole kind of empty 20th century where the sanity of Jesus is not something that's up for discussion within biblical studies. Therefore, it's too unscientific because you can't get a single person inside the mind of an individual study such as Jesus. And so we're going to use modernity as a reason to not discuss an individual case such as Jesus on and so forth. I got into this kind of situation when I read the gospel son, which is to say, if you think about extraordinary and enormous extreme events then

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