If there’s one thing Jordan B. Peterson has proved in his almost-decade run as an internationally known public intellectual, it’s that he can fight. Since his 2016 criticism of a Canadian law for effectively compelling speech related to the use of certain gender pronouns, the professional psychologist and academic has taken on a host of rhetorical sparring partners on Canadian, British, and Australian television; he’s also argued with prominent politicians, scientists, academics, and bloggers. Perhaps we should then not be surprised to find him going at it with no less than God in his new book, We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine.
This wrestling is, however, much less contentious than the debates cited above; Peterson evinces a profound appreciation for the Bible, and the “wrestling” as such is not combative but evocative of Jacob’s wrestling with God as described in Genesis 32: a vigorous human encounter with the divine that deepens and transforms man in the process.
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