Arguably the best lecturer I’ve ever heard. Content, definitions, connections are presented seamlessly and coherently. Grateful…

As a layman, I’ve lost count how many times I’ve said to myself ‘wow, another interesting, thought provoking lecture’ after finishing one from Dr Sugrue. Praise be to God that laymen like myself now have access to such education!

Honestly I learned more about Christianity in one night of absorbing these lectures than my entire childhood growing up Catholic. The Bible and Western Culture series was the best synthesis of Christian ethics, theology, mythology bar none. Thank you for this seminal work.

This man opened minds and saved souls. RIP Dr. Sugrue 😢

Genuinely the best speaker I have ever heard in my entire life. It is truly incredible how well he can articulate his points. Even if you aren't a fan of philosophy at all, I would highly recommend listening to the way he speaks.

These lectures need to be properly ordered in playlists

if education was blessed with 10,000 sugrues our world would be a better place to live in one generation. What a remarkable skill to simultaneously distill and precisely expound deep ideas for the lay mind. In a way the internet has multiplied him but personal interaction will never compare to this isolated screen mind sub-experience.

0:23 The Synoptic Gospels Matthew, *Mark,* Luke, John Romans Destroyed The Temple 2:30 Draw from common source, different tendencies 3:28 5 Major Parables, Authentic 1. Good and Bad Soils 2. Faith as a Mustard seed 3. Evil Tenants in The Vineyard 4. House Divided Against Itself 5. The Fig Tree blooms 5:53 Connect Christianity to Hebrew Tradition ✝️ 7:06 Oral Tradition 8:03 Q-Source, “Spring” 230 Common Verses 9:51 Temptation of Christ *Matthew* 10:22 Convince Believing Hebrew Jews 11:36 Genealogy of Jesus 14:45 Fulfillment of Moses “The Measure You Give; The Measure You Get” Sacrifice in honor of Yahweh 17:11 The Spotless Sheep 🐑 The Morally Perfect, Unique, Linear We Up The Ante, Unreplicatable 19:03 Perfection, unreplicatable Resistance to Perfection 😈👿 21:16 A New Israel “Many are called; few are chosen” 25:02 Beginning Christ’s Ministry The Sermon on The Mount 26:08 Christ’s Authority Kingdom of God 26:40 The Church ⛪️ Discipleship Synoptic Apocalypse 29:22 Imagery & Context Unforgiving Servant Generous Employer 2 Sons Wise & Foolish Maidens Well prepared Sufficiency 31:34 The Sheep 🐑& The goats 🐐 33:21 Shortest Verse Jesus Wept What God cries? Why cry? 34:34 Socrates laughs, never cries 36:05 A Tree From Pity & Sympathy ❤️‍🩹 Inexcusable Grace 37:23 Last shall be The First The First Shall Be The Last 37:39 Make Disciples of All Nations Nature Spirits 39:07 Biblical Tradition, Omnipotent, Omniscient 40:11 3 Being 1 Jesus Represents A Change in Thought about God 💭 Great Judge Unstoppable Force 42:40 Jesus knows Us Jesus is far greater than Us Jesus got what he did not deserve 43:48 The Holy Spirit God of Philosophers Geist Revelation, Idea, Thought Polyglosia 45:04 The Trinity

It's a small thing but that is one strange room.

Michael Sugrue is the best lecturer for me. Fast and slow, ChiaroScuro in tone, playful and serious tones intertwine.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." Lincoln lifted that and used it in his second inauguration address. Lincoln and Shakespeare borrowed many themes from the bible.

I am very grateful for Professor Michael Sugrue's fabulous lectures, he is the most outstanding lecturer I have ever encountered, and I have come across many good dedicated ones.

Oh to have had this insight when we first heard the content of the gospels. The clarity and the linking up of the poetry and meaning is so inspiring and satisfying. Thank you so much !!

As a young amateur I am tremendously grateful that I have chanced upon such articulate and stimulating lectures on topics I found deeply complex and often inexhaustible taking into account my still lack of competence to effectively enwrap myself with suchlike knowledge. As such, these lectures had ignited a drive in me to pursue to think, to critically think, to go out of what was traditionally socially enforced upon me so as to engage in a voyage to intellectual aptitude.

These are just superb. A true privilege to be able to listen to the lectures on this channel

Brilliant videos. Thank you! Binge-watching the whole playlist and enjoying it.

Professor Sugre's lectures are excellent. Aren't we fortunate to have these extraordinary lectures ? The Bible and all the wars fought over it. There are definitely symbolic lessons there as in all the most religious texts. Try Krishnamurti or Alan Watts. It has helped me tremendously.

The lecturer spares no part of the subject matter from his incredible focus, coherence and attention to detail. When switching from covering the secular to discussing the sacred, he even takes a more solemn tone and changes to sober black suits, as if to give a higher respect to the subject matter. The professor is a very special man and I’m thankful for his brilliant and outstanding corpus.

I heard decades ago that Mark can be profitably looked at, as a kind of "Peter's memoir." This little comment has been of great help. And these lectures by Dr. Sugrue are just consistently magnificent. I'm going back to school and loving every minute of it. The way that Michael reaches out to an intelligent adult audience--and teens as well--to "people of the Book" or not--is just fantastic. It was approaches like this one--and he is THE BEST--that hooked me back into the possiblity of belief in a living God.

Dear Professor, If you get a chance to see this would you please create a play list on this channel with the lectures in their correct order, separated into each course? I am trying to go through them systematically and I'd love to do it in order. This content is absolutely fantastic, and I think creating a play list will help folks engage with the whole courses rather than just single lectures.

There has never been, in my experience, a better explanation of the Holy Spirit than that given by Dr. Sugrue in the last three minutes of this lecture. To borrow a term I heard from another Dr. Sugrue lecture about Meister Eckhart; "Dr. Sugrue, the man from whom God hid nothing."

Wow! That was really something. Thanks so much.

I can't express just how grateful I am to you for uploading these lectures - they are truly magnificent, thank you. I was so happy to see a new upload the other day with the Sophenhaur lecture; I hope there are more to come! Keep up the excellent work 👍🏻

Such eloquence.

Wish I was there for all his lectures

Thank you so much for uploading these lectures. You are performing a great service! As with many people, I came across Dr. Sugrue's lecture on Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and Stoicism years ago and tried to find other recorded lectures. I greatly admire his erudition and how he is able to condense massive amounts of information. I echo the sentiments of one of the comments, please continue to upload.

Absolutely an amazing presentation. Thank you.

Great lecture

Need a fundraiser for this national treasure!!

Now. What a wonderful series of lectures you have made available for us. Thank-you, this is a tremendous value to me :)

Thank you so much for making these available, Dr. Sugrue!

That thumbnail is perfect. Ancient aliens- sugrue edition

The delivery is staggering and absolutely stunning. Thank you, kind Sir.

Thank you!

Thank you

Thanks!

Excellent

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This is lecture 6 of part 1

41:22 Or maybe another way to read it: Against all of Job’s friends insistences, God reveals to Job the lack of meaning behind his ordeals-that he was right to question his friends attempts to stick blame on something. Behind the whirlwind lecture about the exoticness/manifoldness of creation rests the subtle truth-that Job’s inexplicable suffering coincides with his radical freedom. He reconciles himself to this and regains his health. Later in the NT we get this redoubling of freedom through alienation with the emergence of the Holy Spirit-after the crucifixion we don’t get back to the father or the son but encounter a new ground of unity through shared loss. Jesus completes God’s plan for salvation by leaving us free to care for the garden, to take up our full ethical responsibility in the here and now.

Where is part 2 and 3? There are at least 24 lectures in this series but only a few in this youtube playlist

Nice ...

I like Micheals view on why the Trinity is there.. its a easier way to explain God (something man created in his theology) and as you get too close.... (questioning Gods make up) its becomes paradoxical and cannot be argued against. it can explain the relationship of HS S G, and then paradoxially claim the mystery of God at he same time.. it has a elegance.. i dont agree that its correct though. But, One thing that is not mentioned in the lecture, is that in Job, ... Job tells God he is too awsome, and he is unapproachable.. and that what is needed was a mediator between God and Man... because the relationship is impossible.. I think that is an important part moving from the Montheistic God unapproachable God that instills fear... to the appointed Lord of Man the son of God... Jesus.. who is far more approachable and easier to petition. because of that and much other scripture that does not work in favour of the trintiy.. i tend to not believe the trinity is in the bible... its a man made layer to help believers.

I’m rethinking everything

1. Jesu is perfect man for moral 2. The core message of Christian is reborn 3. Jesu is universal pity Grateful ❤

I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

While I enjoyed the lecture a ton, and the characterization of each gospel and breakdown of Matthew. Some of the conclusion that the Professor comes up with are just his unwillingness to accept the gospels as real physical truths and not mere myths. And why is this important? Well the incarnation of Christ and prophecies only make sense in the grander scheme of the Fall of Man from the Edenic state and the recapitulation and restoration of Man to commune with his Maker through Christ’s sacrifice at the cosmic level. Christ’s resurrection was a COSMIC event as Saint Maximus the Confessor explains in his ambiguaa

Straight from the set of America’s Funniest Home Videos.

When exactly these lectures were tapet

What happened to chronological playlist?

When the minority ruling elite in ancient civilizations first figured out how to keep the masses obeying and not revolting--and cleverly determined that psychological coercion worked much better than force--religion was born ... and has been used as a tool for the past 6000+ years. As stories to keep the majority in check, they seem to work beautifully. It's all about power and survival. The world operates on a much more primitive level than we'd like to admit.

There are half a dozen different videos entitled "The Bible and Western Culture Part 1".

17:40

7:35

Redating the NEW TESTAMENT By John A.T. Robinson "One of the oddest facts about the New Testament is that what on any showing would appear to be the single most datable and climactic event of the period - the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, and with it the collapse of institutional Judaism based on the temple - is never once mentioned as a past fact. "

As a quranist, i am focused on the verses which affirm the injiil/bible and torah, wonder what that 6th century bible entailed. Did it certainly include the gospels?

33:40.

The gospel truth

He's brilliant, but he hardly ever blinks. To me that's troubling.

I do believe Jesus Christ laughed. He was human, after all. Because it was not in scripture, it means nothing. Scripture is here to point out major problems.

19:29 "Jesus's perfection almost intolerable. If we were to ever encounter someone who was morally perfect like of people's of jesus time, we would feel constrained to kill such a person." Ouch. Reminds me when Jesus came back and we tossed him in jail in The Grand Inquisitor within the Bros Karazmov by Dostoyevsky.

I think the interpretation of Jesus as God's empathy towards the end of the lecture really underscores how strange it is that Jesus never finds anything funny.

There's no biblical evidence that Jesus had to use a "restroom." Therefore, Jesus had no need for such a facility.

" The holy spirit is the spirit of philosophers". According to Martin Luther wouldn't that make the Holy spirit the Devil. That would align with Hegel's idea of the Holy trinity. So we have Jesus, the representation of Man and the binary opposites, which would be in accordance with Nature. A sheep or a Goat? The aesthetic man or the ethical man? But I contend that the choice to be made is the aesthetic man or the virtuous man. We are constantly subject to temptation, hence one ought to overcome their desires and aversions, then all that is left is pure Reason. If one was to follow the categorical imperative, as many do, out of fear of the consequences then that would make them the aesthetic man. Yesterday I watched a biography on Joseph Mengele and contemplated the ambiguities of the creation of such a vile creature. The devil incarnate, the embodiment of evil. But everything is relative, we can't have one without the other, he enables us to redefine our perception of evil, some would consider a person evil if they took their lollipop, but relatively, when compared to Mengele. Then on further contemplation, considering that Mind does to us what we do to others, do we as a species not do the same to lower animals. Test products on them, lock them up and experiment with them. It's the very same thing. It gives us the opportunity for collective introspection. It gives us an opportunity to contemplate the inhumane way in which we farm animals. The inhumane way in which we slaughter them. Collectively it presents us with our own vices. I would much prefer to be a goat than a sheep. We all know who the sheep are, and the shepherds have wool and lamb chops.

Underviewed but certainly not underrated lecture. Only ten thousand views... shame. God is dead.

Jesus laughed. Just trust me.

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