Martyr Made's Darryl Cooper on How the Gospel Informs His Historical Approach

David Gornoski sits down with Darryl Cooper for a conversation on introducing Rene Girard to Tucker Carlson, why God allows us to malign His character, what "loving" our enemies mean, why Israel is under the shadow of the cross, and more.

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Introducing Rene Girard to Tucker Carlson
4:23 Why Girard's theory is so powerful
8:05 Anthropology and the Bible
11:33 Social death
12:33 Can God grasp our suffering?
22:08 Did God change through history?
30:34 Book of Job
34:24 Rene Girard and Carl Jung
36:05 The "hard to get" God
40:43 Maybe God is a dictator
42:00 "Loving" our enemies
46:58 Mimetic contagion of nonviolence
51:30 A framework to return
53:25 Christ-hauntedness
1:04:29 The Christian concern for humanity
1:05:49 October 7 and victim concern
1:07:13 The temple and ethnonationalism
1:09:09 Jesus' interactions with the Jewish leaders
1:19:34 An ethical reorientation
1:24:04 The Naqba and change in media technology
1:28:58 The sacredness of personhood
1:36:16 Generational guilt
1:38:38 The noosphere
1:40:38 The challenge of individuality
1:45:34 Closing thoughts