Theology for Those Who Don’t Fit | with Dr. Nathan Jacobs

Dr. Nathan Jacobs is a filmmaker, artist, scholar, writer and Orthodox Christian. He's the writer-director of the documentary film called Becoming Truly Human (2017), which looks at the religiously unaffiliated, or "Nones," as a growing demographic. In this conversation we discuss his journey to Orthodox Christianity and how it intersects with his work, the problems he experienced in Western Christian theology and how the Eastern Church Fathers resolve many Christian as well as modern problems like emergence, the multiverse, cognitive science etc.

Check out Nathan’s work: https://www.nathanajacobs.com

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Thank you to Nicolás Hernández Moreno for creating this version of the intro music.

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Start
00:00:49 - Intro music
00:01:27 - Nathan’s background & story
00:04:36 - Discovering the Church Fathers
00:05:53 - Convergence with film
00:07:39 - Becoming Truly Human film
00:10:29 - The shift to long form storytelling
00:15:10 - Fandoms
00:16:43 - The natural search for a narrative framework
00:24:22 - The Occult & misunderstanding mystery
00:29:39 - The New Atheists VS materialist Christians
00:32:06 - The “Nones”
00:34:41 - Enter the Church Fathers
00:36:20 - Problems with Western Christianity
00:47:46 - Eastern Christian fathers
00:54:02 - Hierarchy of being
00:58:21 - Essence/Energy distinction
01:09:43 - The key difference between East & West
01:13:18 - The multiverse & the inevitability of Leibniz
01:17:28 - Outro

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