“Wrestling With God,” Jordan Peterson’s latest book, is an unusual bestseller: It is a tome dedicated to the study of Scripture. In a wide-ranging interview last week, Mr. Peterson told me, “The book that you have is one-third of what I wrote.” When I laughed and said I was envisioning his editor receiving a 1,500-page draft, he responded: “That’s actually what happened.”
More striking than the book’s success is the intellectual journey of its author. Mr. Peterson, a Canadian psychologist, tells me he was a “casual attendee” at a church whose denomination has since been “absolutely laid waste” by the trends of postmodernity. When he was unimpressed as a teenager with a clergyman’s inability to reconcile Scripture and science, he stopped going to services.
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