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Summary: We Who Wrestle With God, by Jordan Peterson
A chapter by chapter review of the ideas in Dr. Peterson’s latest book.
Introduction
I decided to summarize Dr. Jordan Peterson’s We Who Wrestle With God more than review as a means to help people know what they are getting into with this book. It also helps me concretize my ideas and understanding, which is the main reason I write in the first place. Reviewing it would first assume I understand it.
Wrestling with God is akin to understanding God. Like in The Matrix, Neo is tested by Seraph through fighting. Seraph does not believe you can truly know someone unless you fight them. That’s what it means to wrestle with God: to see what He is made of and figure it out by pulling and tugging on Him. This pulling and tugging is a humble journey into the stories of the Bible.
Each chapter of Dr. Peterson’s book discusses the spirit of God revealed in the story covered. You could replace the word “spirit” with “essence” if you wanted to be less supernatural. I provide a line on what that essence is and talk a little bit about how it is portrayed for each story.
The most interesting idea I formed is that most people believe in the God of the Bible, regardless of their proclamations about what they think or…
