He Who Wrestles With God in Public: Jordan Peterson Versus Himself, by Scott Ventureyra

By Scott Ventureyra, Crisis Magazine, June 6, 2025

Scott Ventureyra earned a doctorate in theology from Carleton University/Dominican University College in Ottawa, Canada in 2017. ..

Peterson, who has notoriously stood aloof from formal religion, found out that mere psycho-spirituality couldn’t stand up to committed opposition to God.

Jordan Peterson’s recent appearance on Jubilee’s viral YouTube debate wasn’t just another skirmish in the culture war between belief and unbelief. It revealed something deeper and more unsettling: the ongoing drama of a man caught between archetype and Incarnation, between myth and metaphysical truth. The event was less about the 20 atheists who challenged him and more about the unresolved questions that have long surrounded Peterson’s theology or lack thereof.

For years, observers have speculated: Is Peterson inching toward Christianity, or is he crafting a symbolic system and even inventing a mythic religion of his own? The Jubilee debate threw that tension into sharp relief. What unfolded wasn’t so much a theological dialogue but perhaps more a public unraveling. The spectacle laid bare the limits of symbolic Christianity and raised a question that’s been simmering for nearly a decade: Can a man live as though Christianity were true without ever affirming that it is? …

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