Jim Palmer joins me to talk about his work in "deconstructionology." After sharing a bit of his story, which includes movement from mega-church pastor to questioning Christian seeker to deconstructioning writer, Jim talks to me a bit about his ideas of engaging religion generally and Christianity specifically beyond superficial either/or thinking.
How do we move past simple binaries of theism/atheism, for example, or different kinds of ideology? What container is expansive enough to hold religious questioning without simply leading to a) a lateral move or b) unmoored relativism?
Timestamps:
What might a God on the other side of deconstruction look like?
0:00 Introduction
1:36 Jim's Story
14:04 Deconstruction Therapeutics
23:44 Metamodernism and Reconstruction
30:56 Towards Existential Health
36:29 Between Binaries
52:41 A Truly Human Jesus, and a Truly Divine Humanity
1:01:09 Liberating Knowledge
1:05:38 A God on the Other Side of Deconstruction
Jim's Substack can be found here: https://jimpalmerauthor.substack.com/
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