This is part 2 of 3 talks by Dr. Nathan Jacobs about the "nones", the religiously unaffiliated, a group that has grown dramatically over the past two decades.
In this talk, Nathan Jacobs argues that many who leave are not rejecting God, per se, but a particular vision of God shaped by Western theological developments. Exploring themes like grace, freedom, divine goodness, fatalism, and anthropology, he contrasts key Western trajectories with the vision of the Eastern Church Fathers. The result is a compelling case that Orthodoxy does not suppress the moral and spiritual intuitions of today’s seekers — it fulfills them.
Watch part 1: The Modern Religious Debate Lost Its Audience: https://youtu.be/vun_XtxDt5E
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Coming up next
01:28 - East West series
02:36 - Introduction
05:18 - What the nones believe
10:39 - Rejecting Western Christianity
14:12 - Augustine
18:40 - The nature/Grace divide
25:42 - Protestantism & predestination
31:48 - God's will
39:36 - Competing goods
46:17 - Our world is spiritual
59:02 - Return to talk
59:51 - Man as microcosm
01:01:51 - Was man made mortal or immortal?
01:06:11 - Energies
01:15:02 - What happens after death
01:18:06 - The remedy for divine hiddenness
01:24:34 - Q&A: On trusting your intuitions about God
01:29:21 - Q: Anxiety of the participants
01:30:58 - Q: What about Jesus?
01:33:11 - Q: Discussions about the Trinity
01:36:07 - Q: Using the halo in the documentary
01:40:06 - Q: Do nones go to other religions?
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