Transfigured | John Vervaeke and Paul Vanderklay on Neoplatonism, Evolution, and Christianity @transfigured3673 | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 43 minutes ago.
@johnvervaeke and @PaulVanderKlay come together for a dialogue on neoplatonism, evolution, and Christianity. This is my third dialogue with John Vervaeke and the first appearance of Paul on my channel.
We mention Adam Friended, David Sloan Wilson, Bret Weinstein, Thomas Aquinas, the Apostle Paul, Jacob Faturechi, Origen of Alexandria, Plotinus, Philo of Alexandria, John Scotus Eriugena, Proclus, Maximus the Confessor, Porphyry, Noam Chomsky, Northrop Frye, CS Lewis, Iamblichus, Gregory Shaw, Pseudo-Dionysius, Jonathan Pageau, Numenius, Alvin Platinga, Daniel Dennett, Donald Hoffman, Joscha Bach, Paul Anleitner (aka @DeepTalksTheology ), Sevilla King (aka @aqualityexistence4842 ), Cornelius Platinga, David Bentley Hart, sigmund freud, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hagel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, DC Schlinder, Von Balthasar, Clare Carlisle, Spinoza, and more.
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:08:30 - The evolutionary argument for Christianity
00:16:20 - John proposes the importance of Neoplationism
00:28:30 - Paul responds to John's proposal
00:37:38 - The origins of Neoplatonism
00:46:45 - The necessity of particularity
01:07:00 - The evolutionary argument against naturalism
01:24:20 - The uniqueness of Christian Neoplatonism
01:28:00 - Hermeneutics of suspicion vs Hermeneutics of beauty
01:36:00 - Closing thoughts and teasers for next time
Link to podcast version of this episode: https://anchor.fm/transfigured-sam/episodes/John-Vervaeke-and-Paul-Vanderklay-on-Neoplatonism--Evolution--and-Christianity-e1demjf
Vervaeke's awakening from the meaning crisis: youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY&list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Vervaeke and Joscha Bach: youtube.com/watch?v=rK7ux_JhHM4
@johnvervaeke and @PaulVanderKlay come together for a dialogue on neoplatonism, evolution, and Christianity. This is my third dialogue with John Vervaeke and the first appearance of Paul on my channel.
We mention Adam Friended, David Sloan Wilson, Bret Weinstein, Thomas Aquinas, the Apostle Paul, Jacob Faturechi, Origen of Alexandria, Plotinus, Philo of Alexandria, John Scotus Eriugena, Proclus, Maximus the Confessor, Porphyry, Noam Chomsky, Northrop Frye, CS Lewis, Iamblichus, Gregory Shaw, Pseudo-Dionysius, Jonathan Pageau, Numenius, Alvin Platinga, Daniel Dennett, Donald Hoffman, Joscha Bach, Paul Anleitner (aka @DeepTalksTheology ), Sevilla King (aka @aqualityexistence4842 ), Cornelius Platinga, David Bentley Hart, sigmund freud, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hagel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, DC Schlinder, Von Balthasar, Clare Carlisle, Spinoza, and more.
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:08:30 - The evolutionary argument for Christianity
00:16:20 - John proposes the importance of Neoplationism
00:28:30 - Paul responds to John's proposal
00:37:38 - The origins of Neoplatonism
00:46:45 - The necessity of particularity
01:07:00 - The evolutionary argument against naturalism
01:24:20 - The uniqueness of Christian Neoplatonism
01:28:00 - Hermeneutics of suspicion vs Hermeneutics of beauty
01:36:00 - Closing thoughts and teasers for next time
Link to podcast version of this episode: https://anchor.fm/transfigured-sam/episodes/John-Vervaeke-and-Paul-Vanderklay-on-Neoplatonism--Evolution--and-Christianity-e1demjf
Vervaeke's awakening from the meaning crisis: youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY&list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Vervaeke and Joscha Bach: youtube.com/watch?v=rK7ux_JhHM4
