Book 1: An Illumination of Matthew
Part 2: The Thesis of Jesus
Chapter 7: The Road that Leads to Life (Righteousness III: the Future)
This episode concludes Part 2: The Thesis of Jesus. Jake and I continue to study the 1st discourse of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount - looking at chapter 7 of Matthew’s Gospel in the light of first three beattitudes, as well as the ethical-existential problem of orienting to the future.
Here we look at Jesus' answer to the question of how one should live with respect to the future. We discuss the "transjective equations" in Jesus' teaching, and how it relates to psychology - looking at psychodynamic concepts like projection, libido, and object-cathexis.
In this episode:
0:00 - Restart and Recap
3:45 - The 3rd Beattitude: Meekness + Reading
05:25 - On Jesus’ “Transjective Equations” (cf. John Vervaeke)
9:40 - Jesus’ discovery of psychological projection
14:00 - What is meekness?
19:10 - The strength which is in meekness
21:20 - How saints and poets inherit the earth
25:30 - Pop vs. Indie
28:40 - Was Jesus’ career a dud?
31:00 - The 2nd Beattitude: Mourning + Reading
32:40 - Ask-Seek-Knock vis-à-vis mourning and comfort
33:45 - On Freud’s paper “Mourning and Melancholia”
36:06 - The paradox of mourning
38:30 - Our modern culture and depression
42:10 - The Golden Transjective Equation
48:25 - The 1st Beattitude: Poor in Spirit + Reading
52:55 - Spiritually Poor, or Spirit of the Poor?
58:05 - The Narrow Gate and the Hard Road
1:01:30 - Doubt and the salesmen of security
1:04:00 - False security in the (literal) name of Christ
1:06:50 - Jesus’ Way is ultimately an ethic
1:11:00 - Concluding our discussion of the Sermon