In this episode, I offer my own take on the "God Pivot" towards Christianity in the Intellectual Dark Web and adjacent communities (e.g., the liminal web, "This Corner of the Internet," and beyond). Reflecting on my recent interview with Jordan Hall, I see something glaringly absent from the broader conversation: the modern historical-critical perspective. Therefore, I ask: 1) How does the Traditional-Devotional perspective differ from the Modern Historical-Critical one with regard to the Old and New Testaments? 2) What might a metamodern Christianity look like that could successfully and syngergistically toggle between these different lenses to yield something progressive and robust?
0:00 Introduction
4:40 Hermeneutic Lenses: The Traditional-Devotional and Modern Historical-Critical Perspectives
7:46 Old Testament: Traditional-Devotional
13:13 Old Testament: Modern Historical-Critical
32:01 New Testament: Traditional-Devotional
37:53 New Testament: Modern Historical-Critical
47:58 Implications and Synthesis