Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood

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Lecture 7 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series.

Life at the individual and the societal level is punctuated by crisis and catastrophe. This stark truth finds its narrative representation in the widely-distributed universal motif of the flood. Mircea Eliade, the great Romanian historian of religion, noted that flood stories identify two reasons for the destruction: (1) the tendency of complex things to fall apart of their own accord; (2) the proclivity of human beings to speed up that process by sinning, or missing the mark (by engaging in self-evident corruption, or by failing to attend to what cries out for attention). The Genesis story clearly states that Noah and his family are to be spared from impending disaster because Noah “walks with God,” as Adam did before the Fall. In this lecture, the 7th in the series, I intermingle the story of Noah and his survival with elements of the Sermon on the Mount, making the effort to explain to a modern audience why careful moral attitude and behavior comprises the best defense against “the righteous anger of God.”

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Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood

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Episode 23 – Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers

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Episode 22 – Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death

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Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority

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Episode 20 – Ideology, Logos & Belief

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Episode 19 – Genesis – Chaos and Order

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Episode 18 – Introduction to the Idea of God

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Episode 17 – Dr Martin Daly

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Episode 16 – An Incendiary Discussion at Ryerson U

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Episode 15 – How to Change the World

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Episode 14 – A Dialogue with Tom Amarque

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Episode 13 – Maps of Meaning 10 – 13

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Episode 12 – Maps of Meaning 7 – 9

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Episode 11 – Dr. James W. Pennebaker

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