

Transfigured
Transfigured
Long form discussions on the identity of Jesus
Episodes
Mentioned books

12 snips
Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 18min
John Vervaeke - AI Sages & AI Demons: Discerning the Spirits of our Digital Age
John Vervaeke is the director of the Cognitive Science program at the University of Toronto. We discuss the possibility of creating AI sages that can lead to enlightenment as well as the dangers. We mention @JonathanPageau , @climbingmt.sophia ( Ken Lowry) , DC Schlinder, @PaulVanderKlay , Plotinus, Iamblichus, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Buddha, Charles Taylor, and more.

Feb 21, 2024 • 1h 31min
Jordan Hall - Christianity is the religion that is not a religion to address the meaning crisis
Jordan Hall is a thinker, truth seeker, and all around fascinating guy. We talk about the meta-crisis, the meaning crisis, religion, artificial intelligence, Christianity, suffering, and the religion that is not a religion. We mention Jordan Vervaeke, Paul Vanderklay, Jonathan Pageau, Bret Weinstein, David Sloan Wilson, Ian McGilchrist, Fr Alexander Schmemann, and many more.

Feb 14, 2024 • 1h 37min
Moises Pacheco - The Deep Christian Symbolism of Harry Potter
Moises Pachoeco is the pastor of Grace in Garfield CRC church in Chicago. We talk about the Christian Symbolism of Harry Potter. We mention Jordan B Peterson, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, John Vervaeke, and many more.
Chicago Meetup : https://www.meetup.com/chicagoland-bridges-of-meaning-meetup/

Feb 9, 2024 • 1h 25min
Sean Finnegan - The Kingdom of God: Jesus's forgotten central teaching
Sean Finnegan and I talk about the Kingdom of God. We mention Justin Martyr, Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Plato, Plato, Plato, Plotinus, Porphyry, Irenaeus of Lyon, Cerinthus, St. Anthony of the Desert, Tertullian, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and many more.
Sean's book: https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Journe...
Restitutio Podcast: https://restitutio.org/get-podcast/
Living Hope International: https://lhim.org/

Feb 5, 2024 • 58min
Dr. Dru Johnson - Evolution, Creation, Randomness, and the Hebraic roots of Science
Dru Johnson is visiting associate professor at Hope College in Holland, MI and the director of the Center for Hebraic Thought, editor at The Biblical Mind
Host of The Biblical Mind podcast: https://thebiblicalmind.org/
Co-host of the OnScript Podcast: https://onscript.study/What Hath Darwin to do with Scripture? https://www.amazon.com/What-Hath-Darwin-Scripture-Conceptual/dp/1514003619
We mention Tertullian, Richard Dawkins, Francis Collins, Michael Behe, Fredrick Nietzsche, Sean Carroll, Bret Weinstein, Aristotle, Plato, and many more.

Jan 31, 2024 • 1h 4min
Response to Gavin Ortlund - Is the Trinity in the NT? No!!
@TruthUnites Gavin's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwXlBX-fMtA&t=304s
My First Response to Gavin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZBndndnU_U
@PaulVanderKlay on my response to Gavin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlKw7H6zbJo&t=267s
My video on The Development of Doctrine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQt_QO4ASAQ
My video on John 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTlnT-J6rk
My video on the worship of Jesus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi1t3Es6uCY&t=311s

Jan 26, 2024 • 1h 10min
Hank Kruse - The Beauty of Liturgy in the theology of Benedict XVI
Hank Kruse talks about the theology of the liturgy in the work of Karl Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). We mention Origen of Alexandria, Tripp Parker, John Calvin, Hans Van Balthasar, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Berengarius, Bonaventure, Justin Martyr, Ignatius of Antioch, and more.
Karl Ratzinger - Introduction to Christianity: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Christianity-2nd-Communio-Books/dp/1586170295

Jan 23, 2024 • 55min
Malcolm Collins - How to design a religion to the survive the intergenerational fertility collapse
Malcolm Collins is one of the hosts of @SimoneandMalcolm
He and his wife published https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatists-Guide-Crafting-Religion-Demographic/dp/B0BSJ5SXK2
His appearance on @ChrisWillx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwIeDuHwXJY
His and Simone on @PaulVanderKlay : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6eSBWxtjJs
We talk about fertility collapse, religion, and how to design a religion that can resist this pattern.

Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 26min
Will Barlow - Speaking in Tongues: In Scripture, In Practice, and the Science
Will Barlow is the Pastor of Compass Christian Church. In this video we discuss speaking in tongues. We mention NT Wright, @PaulVanderKlay , Justin Welby, Victor Weirwille, and others.
Compass Christian Church - https://compasslou.org/
@compasslou youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@compasslou
Will's 7-part series on Speaking in Tongues - https://studydrivenfaith.org/media/audio-teachings/corinthians-seminar/
Will's debate on Speaking in Tongues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAgB-rKS1zs
Will's talk with @restitutio8765 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qiAIqfScb8

Dec 22, 2023 • 47min
Did St. Nicholas really slap Arius at the Council of Nicaea?
This is a special Christmas episode looking into the question "Did St. Nicholas really slap Arius at the Council of Nicaea?"
Constantine and the Divine Mind : https://www.amazon.com/Constantine-Divine-Mind-Primitive-Monotheism/dp/1532689926
Interview with Kegan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXIj5OH40IA
Interview with Richard Rubenstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6c0lEZAh-E
Episode about Arius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezeRekmP6ws