The Bible and Western Culture - Part 1 - Matthew: The New Law
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2020
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Dr. Michael Sugrue earned his BA at the University of Chicago and PhD at Columbia University.
Arguably the best lecturer I’ve ever heard. Content, definitions, connections are presented seamlessly and coherently. Grateful…
It's wild how he has spoiled you once you move on from his library...I'm a carpenter on round 2!!
Try Manly P. Hall also... astonishing lectures.
Joseph Campbell's books, "The Power of Myths," and lectures are an added treasure.
As a layman, I’ve lost count how many times I’ve said to myself ‘wow, another interesting, thought provoking lecture’ after finishing one from Dr Sugrue. Praise be to God that laymen like myself now have access to such education!
Honestly I learned more about Christianity in one night of absorbing these lectures than my entire childhood growing up Catholic. The Bible and Western Culture series was the best synthesis of Christian ethics, theology, mythology bar none. Thank you for this seminal work.
This man opened minds and saved souls. RIP Dr. Sugrue 😢
Genuinely the best speaker I have ever heard in my entire life. It is truly incredible how well he can articulate his points. Even if you aren't a fan of philosophy at all, I would highly recommend listening to the way he speaks.
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These lectures need to be properly ordered in playlists
if education was blessed with 10,000 sugrues our world would be a better place to live in one generation. What a remarkable skill to simultaneously distill and precisely expound deep ideas for the lay mind.
In a way the internet has multiplied him but personal interaction will never compare to this isolated screen mind sub-experience.
Michael Sugrue is the best lecturer for me. Fast and slow, ChiaroScuro in tone, playful and serious tones intertwine.
These are just superb. A true privilege to be able to listen to the lectures on this channel
Oh to have had this insight when we first heard the content of the gospels. The clarity and the linking up of the poetry and meaning is so inspiring and satisfying. Thank you so much !!
I am very grateful for Professor Michael Sugrue's fabulous lectures, he is the most outstanding lecturer I have ever encountered, and I have come across many good dedicated ones.
Brilliant videos. Thank you! Binge-watching the whole playlist and enjoying it.
Professor Sugre's lectures are excellent.
Aren't we fortunate to have these extraordinary lectures ?
The Bible and all the wars fought over it.
There are definitely symbolic lessons there as in all the most religious texts.
Try Krishnamurti or Alan Watts. It has helped me tremendously.
As a young amateur I am tremendously grateful that I have chanced upon such articulate and stimulating lectures on topics I found deeply complex and often inexhaustible taking into account my still lack of competence to effectively enwrap myself with suchlike knowledge. As such, these lectures had ignited a drive in me to pursue to think, to critically think, to go out of what was traditionally socially enforced upon me so as to engage in a voyage to intellectual aptitude.
It's a small thing but that is one strange room.
0:23 The Synoptic Gospels
Matthew, *Mark,* Luke, John
Romans Destroyed The Temple
2:30 Draw from common source, different tendencies
3:28 5 Major Parables, Authentic
1. Good and Bad Soils
2. Faith as a Mustard seed
3. Evil Tenants in The Vineyard
4. House Divided Against Itself
5. The Fig Tree blooms
5:53 Connect Christianity to Hebrew Tradition ✝️
7:06 Oral Tradition
8:03 Q-Source, “Spring”
230 Common Verses
9:51 Temptation of Christ
*Matthew*
10:22 Convince Believing Hebrew Jews
11:36 Genealogy of Jesus
14:45 Fulfillment of Moses
“The Measure You Give; The Measure You Get”
Sacrifice in honor of Yahweh
17:11 The Spotless Sheep 🐑
The Morally Perfect, Unique, Linear
We Up The Ante, Unreplicatable
19:03 Perfection, unreplicatable
Resistance to Perfection 😈👿
21:16 A New Israel
“Many are called; few are chosen”
25:02 Beginning Christ’s Ministry
The Sermon on The Mount
26:08 Christ’s Authority
Kingdom of God
26:40 The Church ⛪️
Discipleship
Synoptic Apocalypse
29:22 Imagery & Context
Unforgiving Servant
Generous Employer
2 Sons
Wise & Foolish Maidens
Well prepared
Sufficiency
31:34 The Sheep 🐑& The goats 🐐
33:21 Shortest Verse
Jesus Wept
What God cries?
Why cry?
34:34 Socrates laughs, never cries
36:05 A Tree From Pity & Sympathy ❤️🩹
Inexcusable
Grace
37:23 Last shall be The First
The First Shall Be The Last
37:39 Make Disciples of All Nations
Nature Spirits
39:07 Biblical Tradition, Omnipotent, Omniscient
40:11 3 Being 1
Jesus Represents A Change in Thought about God 💭
Great Judge
Unstoppable Force
42:40 Jesus knows Us
Jesus is far greater than Us
Jesus got what he did not deserve
43:48 The Holy Spirit
God of Philosophers
Geist
Revelation, Idea, Thought
Polyglosia
45:04 The Trinity
John is not part of the synoptic Gospels. Only the other 3.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." Lincoln lifted that and used it in his second inauguration address. Lincoln and Shakespeare borrowed many themes from the bible.
I heard decades ago that Mark can be profitably looked at, as a kind of "Peter's memoir." This little comment has been of great help. And these lectures by Dr. Sugrue are just consistently magnificent. I'm going back to school and loving every minute of it. The way that Michael reaches out to an intelligent adult audience--and teens as well--to "people of the Book" or not--is just fantastic. It was approaches like this one--and he is THE BEST--that hooked me back into the possiblity of belief in a living God.
Wish I was there for all his lectures
There has never been, in my experience, a better explanation of the Holy Spirit than that given by Dr. Sugrue in the last three minutes of this lecture. To borrow a term I heard from another Dr. Sugrue lecture about Meister Eckhart; "Dr. Sugrue, the man from whom God hid nothing."
I can't express just how grateful I am to you for uploading these lectures - they are truly magnificent, thank you. I was so happy to see a new upload the other day with the Sophenhaur lecture; I hope there are more to come! Keep up the excellent work 👍🏻
Thank you so much for uploading these lectures. You are performing a great service! As with many people, I came across Dr. Sugrue's lecture on Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and Stoicism years ago and tried to find other recorded lectures. I greatly admire his erudition and how he is able to condense massive amounts of information. I echo the sentiments of one of the comments, please continue to upload.
Wow! That was really something. Thanks so much.
Absolutely an amazing presentation. Thank you.
The lecturer spares no part of the subject matter from his incredible focus, coherence and attention to detail. When switching from covering the secular to discussing the sacred, he even takes a more solemn tone and changes to sober black suits, as if to give a higher respect to the subject matter. The professor is a very special man and I’m thankful for his brilliant and outstanding corpus.
Now. What a wonderful series of lectures you have made available for us. Thank-you, this is a tremendous value to me :)
The delivery is staggering and absolutely stunning. Thank you, kind Sir.
Great lecture
Thank you so much for making these available, Dr. Sugrue!
That thumbnail is perfect. Ancient aliens- sugrue edition
Need a fundraiser for this national treasure!!
Such eloquence.
Dear Professor,
If you get a chance to see this would you please create a play list on this channel with the lectures in their correct order, separated into each course? I am trying to go through them systematically and I'd love to do it in order.
This content is absolutely fantastic, and I think creating a play list will help folks engage with the whole courses rather than just single lectures.
Strongly agree
@@peterjordan8300 strongly agree
search for "The Bible and Western Culture in order" on youtube and you will find a playlist
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Yes!
Thank you!
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This is lecture 6 of part 1
Nice ...
41:22 Or maybe another way to read it:
Against all of Job’s friends insistences, God reveals to Job the lack of meaning behind his ordeals-that he was right to question his friends attempts to stick blame on something. Behind the whirlwind lecture about the exoticness/manifoldness of creation rests the subtle truth-that Job’s inexplicable suffering coincides with his radical freedom. He reconciles himself to this and regains his health.
Later in the NT we get this redoubling of freedom through alienation with the emergence of the Holy Spirit-after the crucifixion we don’t get back to the father or the son but encounter a new ground of unity through shared loss. Jesus completes God’s plan for salvation by leaving us free to care for the garden, to take up our full ethical responsibility in the here and now.
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I like Micheals view on why the Trinity is there.. its a easier way to explain God (something man created in his theology) and as you get too close.... (questioning Gods make up) its becomes paradoxical and cannot be argued against. it can explain the relationship of HS S G, and then paradoxially claim the mystery of God at he same time.. it has a elegance.. i dont agree that its correct though.
But, One thing that is not mentioned in the lecture, is that in Job, ... Job tells God he is too awsome, and he is unapproachable.. and that what is needed was a mediator between God and Man... because the relationship is impossible.. I think that is an important part moving from the Montheistic God unapproachable God that instills fear... to the appointed Lord of Man the son of God... Jesus.. who is far more approachable and easier to petition. because of that and much other scripture that does not work in favour of the trintiy.. i tend to not believe the trinity is in the bible... its a man made layer to help believers.
I’m rethinking everything
How so?
@@SirBargvis it's everything, cant fit in in a yt comment.:D
@@c5quared626 you can fit quite a bit into a yt comment actually
Where is part 2 and 3? There are at least 24 lectures in this series but only a few in this youtube playlist
Straight from the set of America’s Funniest Home Videos.
1. Jesu is perfect man for moral
2. The core message of Christian is reborn
3. Jesu is universal pity
Grateful ❤
While I enjoyed the lecture a ton, and the characterization of each gospel and breakdown of Matthew.
Some of the conclusion that the Professor comes up with are just his unwillingness to accept the gospels as real physical truths and not mere myths.
And why is this important? Well the incarnation of Christ and prophecies only make sense in the grander scheme of the Fall of Man from the Edenic state and the recapitulation and restoration of Man to commune with his Maker through Christ’s sacrifice at the cosmic level. Christ’s resurrection was a COSMIC event as Saint Maximus the Confessor explains in his ambiguaa
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
There’s a UA-cam channel called Philosophy Overdose which frequently uploads lectures, discussions, excerpts from philosophical texts, clips of philosophers talking about their ideas, etc. I strongly recommend sifting through a bunch of thumbnails and titles until you find something which catches your eye. There’s a ton of great content on that channel, so you’re bound to find an insightful video with enough searching (or by randomly clicking on a video). Hope you check it out and find something interesting!
Todd McGowan is very good-he’s Lacanian/Hegelian, teaches at the university of Vermont. His content on here is great.
When exactly these lectures were tapet
Early 1990's
What happened to chronological playlist?
If you type 'bible western tradition Michael Sugrue' into UA-cam there's a playlist available by someone else. I'm watching this video on a playlist.
@@prydain4131 but not just the Bible western tradition section, what about all of the other sections? Are they also in chronological order? I’ll take a look thanks
When the minority ruling elite in ancient civilizations first figured out how to keep the masses obeying and not revolting--and cleverly determined that psychological coercion worked much better than force--religion was born ... and has been used as a tool for the past 6000+ years. As stories to keep the majority in check, they seem to work beautifully. It's all about power and survival. The world operates on a much more primitive level than we'd like to admit.
Redating the NEW TESTAMENT By John A.T. Robinson "One of the oddest facts about the New Testament is that what on any
showing would appear to be the single most datable and climactic event of the period - the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, and with it the
collapse of institutional Judaism based on the temple - is never once mentioned as a past fact. "
As a quranist, i am focused on the verses which affirm the injiil/bible and torah, wonder what that 6th century bible entailed. Did it certainly include the gospels?
The Gospel in Islam is from Gnostic gosples revelaed by Muhmmad. Its not the same. Muhumad came along 600years after christs death and said the Jews and Muslims have all the storys wrong, and the angel Gabriel revealed to Muhmad the true storys of the bible.
@@allthingsgardencad9726 no gospels in Quran. We have the story of jesus as in the bible, and the reversal of nicean verdict. God allows you to believe in the virgin birth and all that, he just wants you to worship Him only. Yet simple minded uneducated christians call islam heathens, when you are using pagan roman practice by worshipping statues on a cross, of a blonde partly shaved man. Southern racist pastor must have taught you wrong. Anyway the gospels were not written by the disciples, it's been proven. I wonder why God is telling us in the quran fo believe in that, I'm ok with that, i accept the bible. I know that it doesnt have trinity in it, and that we are all metaphorically sons of God. Not just Jesus. I'm just wondering when the first greek copies of the gospels became canon. Anyway thanks for giving me your xenophobic response, I'll find out another way, research.
@@allthingsgardencad9726 nobody said they have the stories wrong, the same stories are there. Your pastors focus on minor differences. Because they like division. And want you to not flirt with other cultures and religious thinking. God knows its a madr up bible, yet kepr the stories there because the arabs had the same stories and epics. The same reason why the stories are in the old testament, they part of the culture epics. Did you not understand this video?
The reason god redacts, is because humans add details and confusion, it's in out nature. Im not simple follower, i dont believe in hadith, which is how muslims transformed a simple quran based religion to something very strange. Humans add scripture, maybe you dont, i dont, rulers and clergy just need control.
@@allthingsgardencad9726 adam eve still happen, abel and cain, noah and the ark, jonah and the whale, moses and the bush exodus, etc all of that, you should be glad somebody else is affirming your faith. Instead you go against the whole teaching of jesus and create animosity. God gave arabs those stories because they already were inspired by jews and christians, also as a form of outreach, so much for that, both sides have failed at humanity, from my research.
There are half a dozen different videos entitled "The Bible and Western Culture Part 1".
The gospel truth
7:35
17:40
He's brilliant, but he hardly ever blinks. To me that's troubling.
33:40.
I do believe Jesus Christ laughed. He was human, after all. Because it was not in scripture, it means nothing. Scripture is here to point out major problems.
What would he laugh about?
Jokes? He knows all the punchlines beforehand.
19:29 "Jesus's perfection almost intolerable. If we were to ever encounter someone who was morally perfect like of people's of jesus time, we would feel constrained to kill such a person."
Ouch. Reminds me when Jesus came back and we tossed him in jail in The Grand Inquisitor within the Bros Karazmov by Dostoyevsky.
I knew I had watched this lecture before. Oh well, worth rewatching. Playlists, please!
I think the interpretation of Jesus as God's empathy towards the end of the lecture really underscores how strange it is that Jesus never finds anything funny.
There's no biblical evidence that Jesus had to use a "restroom." Therefore, Jesus had no need for such a facility.
" The holy spirit is the spirit of philosophers". According to Martin Luther wouldn't that make the Holy spirit the Devil. That would align with Hegel's idea of the Holy trinity. So we have Jesus, the representation of Man and the binary opposites, which would be in accordance with Nature.
A sheep or a Goat? The aesthetic man or the ethical man? But I contend that the choice to be made is the aesthetic man or the virtuous man. We are constantly subject to temptation, hence one ought to overcome their desires and aversions, then all that is left is pure Reason. If one was to follow the categorical imperative, as many do, out of fear of the consequences then that would make them the aesthetic man.
Yesterday I watched a biography on Joseph Mengele and contemplated the ambiguities of the creation of such a vile creature. The devil incarnate, the embodiment of evil. But everything is relative, we can't have one without the other, he enables us to redefine our perception of evil, some would consider a person evil if they took their lollipop, but relatively, when compared to Mengele.
Then on further contemplation, considering that Mind does to us what we do to others, do we as a species not do the same to lower animals. Test products on them, lock them up and experiment with them. It's the very same thing. It gives us the opportunity for collective introspection. It gives us an opportunity to contemplate the inhumane way in which we farm animals. The inhumane way in which we slaughter them. Collectively it presents us with our own vices.
I would much prefer to be a goat than a sheep. We all know who the sheep are, and the shepherds have wool and lamb chops.
Underviewed but certainly not underrated lecture. Only ten thousand views... shame. God is dead.
Christ lives and reigns
Jesus laughed. Just trust me.
The original Q anon
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