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Peter Rollins - The Archive — 229 episodes
Hymns to Nothing | Orpheus, Euripides and the Art of Lament
Death of God Super Club | Live in LA | Part 1
Trash of the World | In Defence of Non-Identity Politics
Beyond the Fetish | Faith and the Contradiction
Belief, Knowledge and the Fetish
The Pervert's Guide to Church | Between Knowledge and Belief
Encountering the Hysterical Absolute
The Death Drive Denomination | Pyrotheology and Future Church
Wake Festival
The Positive Side of Negativity | Nothing Lives, Nothing Binds, Nothing Saves
Ideological Enjoyment
Don't Steal What You Don't Understand: Religion as Belief and Function
Liminal Space | A Conversation with Photographer Steven Wilson
The Power of Negative Thinking with Julie Reshe
Atheism for Lent Information
Coffee and Concepts | Prohibition of Prohibition
The Contradiction Seminar | Part 2 | The Liturgy of Lack
The Contradiction Seminar | Part 3 | With Barry Taylor
They Live
The Contradiction Seminar | Part 1 | The Freaked-out Fundamentalist and the Hysterical God
Life After Death
Church of the Contradictioon
Grace
Ideology and Alienation: Self-Help vs. Grace
They Live
The Unknowing God
Seminar 1 | Structuring Pensées
Pyrotheology and Psychedelics
Exposure | Riders of Justice
Atheism for Lent | Part 7 | God as Present Absence
Atheism for Lent | Part 6 | God as Groundless
Atheism for Lent | Part 4 | God is US
Atheism for Lent | Part 3 | God IS Not
Atheism for Lent | Part 2 | God is NOT
Atheism for Lent | Part 1 | God IS
A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 3
If God Does Not Exist, is Everything Permissible?
Fascist Hippies and Totalitarian Mystics
A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 2
A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 1
Wake Hangout | Into the Unknown
The Church that Believes in Nothing
Desire
Superego
The Lacanian Subject
The Last Supper
Coffee and Concepts | The Master's Discourse
Living Flowers (with Adam Turkington)
Impurity Culture
Transformance Art
Absurdo Confido
The Profane Temple
Into the Chaosmos
Pig
The Profane Temple
The Four Discourses
The Real
My Truth or The Truth | The Stoic, the Skeptic and the Sinner in Hegel
How (Not) to Speak of God | Deconstruction Vs. Denomination
From Enemy to Neighbor
You're Racist! No, I Am! The Sadomasochistic Relationship between Supremacism and Orientalism
Impurity Culture: Projective Identification and Otherness
Jouissance
A/Thesim
Social Distortions | Ideology and the Real in America
Against Happiness | The Category of Fools
Capitalism and Desire | Shielding our Eyes from the Gaze
What Does the Miser Lose | Weil and the Non-Existent Reality of God
Social Media Rage and the Gaze (with Michael Gungor)
God as Ground or Gap | Tillich, Caputo and Žižek on the Absolute
Capitalism and Desire | The Psychic Constitution of Private Space
Capitalism and Desire | The Subject of Desire and the Subject of Capitalism
Concluding Q&A
Absurdo Confido | VI
Non-Membership | Part V
The Happy Reaper | Part IV
The Absurd Cross | Part III
Secret of the Lack | Part II
The Magic Trick | Part I
You Don't Hate Mondays, You Hate... | On Class Conflict and Displacement
The Rock that Can't be Lifted
Gabriel Marcel and the Ontological Mystery (excerpt)
Confronting the Void | Transformance Art, Citizen Kane and the Gaze
The Self-Castration of God | Authority, Freedom and Kenosis
Apocalypticism Vs. Progressivism | Are we the Baddies
The Shadow of God | Collectives of the Contradiction
The Shadow of God | Towards a Higher Stage in History
The Shadow of God | Nietzsche, the Madman and COVID-19
Religion and Contradiction: Feuerbach, Marx and Hegel
Anselm and Theological Atheism
The (Pyro)theological Cure
The Law of Contradiction
Paradox, Freedom and Responsibility
The Positive Power of Negative Thinking
Don't Give Ground to Your Desire (Part 3)
Don't Give Ground to Your Desire (Part 2)
Don't Give Ground to Your Desire (Part 1)
Surviving Christmas | A conversation with Sean McDonald
The Quantum Level of Reason | C.S. Lewis and Ezekiel Bulver
Radical Theology and the Christ Event
Altizer and the Future of Theology
Desire, Happiness and Hoping Against Hope
Problem or Symptom | Commentary (Part 2)
Problem or Symptom | Introduction (Part 1)
In the World, But Not of It
Pyrotheology 101
I Must Die in You
God of the Gap | Peter Rollins
The Difference Between Identical Wines | Why We Want Others to Pay
The Magic Trick of Christianity | Pledge, Turn and Prestige
Same Soda, Different Taste
Who is Number One | On Jordan Peterson and the Political
The Last Guru | On Fantasy and Transference
A Guide To Making Love The Commentary
Holy Shift Tour | The Wholly Other Inner Dimension
Mapping Pyrotheology | Returning to Where We Are
Embracing The Lack | An Interview with Peter Jost
A Friend is Just a Stranger You Haven't Met
Pyrotheology and Ultimate Concern | An Introduction
How to Manage Impossible Relationships
How Far Can You Get Without Getting out of Bed
The C Word
Advent Course | Paul Tillich and the Absolute
Psychoanalysis vs Depth Psychology | On Jung and Freud
Not getting what you want
Joined by Our Lack
Confronting the Holy: Whole or Hole
See no evil, acknowledge no evil, experience no evil | On Ideology and Antagonism
The Möbius Strip Club: On Crude Materialism, Two-World Cosmology and the Twist in Reality
How to Start a Cult | An Interview with Maggie Rowe
Pints and Parabes in Santa Barbara
The Madness of Catching Light | On C.S. Lewis, Lacan and the Sublime
On Making an Enemy: The Creation, Cultivation and Contortion of Resistance
Mobilizing Discontent: Creating Spaces for Change
Ideology: Problem or Parallax
The Case of the Missing Finger: Belief, Action and the Symptom
Love Trumps Hate On Peterson Cultural Marxism And Postmodernism
Radical Theology with Moshe Kasher
Escaping the Sitcom of Life | David Brent, Grotesques and Life Before Death
The Politics Of Disavowed Enjoyment
How To Be An Idiot
You Made it Weird
God of this World
Joined By Our Lack
Meditation Works, and that's the Problem
When Atheism isn't Atheistic Enough
Embracing the Absurd | When Atheism Isn't Atheistic Enough
On the Holy and its Relation to the Unconcsious
Lack and the Social Bond
Easter Fools Day
Changing Worlds: A Primer on the Apocalypse
The Obsessive and the Hysteric: Žižek on Peterson
When Atheism isn't Atheistic Enough: Radical Theology and the Death of God
Religionless Christianity The Existential Theologians
Salvation For Zombies (Lecture At The Brehm Center)
Proof in the Pudding: Materialist Readings of Religion
Encircling the Nothing: Mysticism, Truth and the Unknowable
Priests Make the Best Atheists
Time in a Bottle: On Confronting the Other
When Everything Isn't Enough: On Providence, Osteen and Anxiety
The Failure Of Love: MacGyver, Desire and the Art of Making Love
Be Optimistic, Expect Chaos | Faith and the End of Meaning
How to Gain Clients and Extract Wealth: The End of Transference and Traversing the Fantasy
Becoming an Ethical Subject: In Defense of Predestination
I Don't Know What You Want Because you Don't Know: Freedom from the Big Other
Stationary Movement: On Grace, Law and Pyrotheology
The Tyranny of Self-Help: Coveting and the Body of Death
Losing the Lost Object | On Scapegoating, Ideology and Conversion
Into the Wilderness: A Conversation with Kent Dobson
The Art of Wanting Want: Christianity and Desire
Maybe Reality is Fuzzy: Faith and Nihilism
Circle of Reality (Excerpt from week 1 of Christ and the End of Meaning
Rob Bell Interview
The Role of Theology: Against Superstition and Crude Materialism
Mustard Seeds
Making Love: The Knot of Desire
It is Better that Heaven Insist: C.S. Lewis, Joy and the Absurd
Schopenhauer's Pendulum: On The Objectivity Of Suffering
Liar, Lunatic And Lord
On Wanting What You Need: Reflections on Pyro-Church
Drew Marshall interviews Peter Rollins on Saint Patrick's Day (2017)
On Hope: A fairytale from Enduring Love
Five Minutes to Get Out: A Reflection on Christmas
Three Types Of Spirituality- The High, The Low And The Within
Universalism And Bad Faith
What is Religion
Week 1: A Welcome, Introduction And Orientation
The Alien From Inner Space: Prometheus, Death Drive And Original Sin
Did God Kill Jesus, Or Did Jesus Kill God- Some Thoughts On The Crucifixion
The Critique Of God: Atheism, Mysticism And Materialist Theology
Time In A Bottle- Transformance Art And Decentering Practice
On Melancholy And Misery- In Praise Of Everyday Unhappiness
In Defence Of Inerrancy- Lewis, Freud And Dream Interpretation
Atheism For Lent
Voices From The Margins- A Conversation With Conner Habib
When Atheism Isn't Atheistic Enough- A Taster
Myth And The Real
Defence Mechanisms And Transfiguration- The Art Of Turning Pain Into Progress
Living In Troubled Times- On Splitting, Novelty And Hope
The Devil Made Me Do It- Exorcism And Grace (Part 2 Of 2)
Trauma And Forgiveness (Part 1 Of 2)
Entering The Storm- A Conversation With Kent Dobson
The Man Who Got Everything- Willy Wonka And The Twilight Zone
The End Of Meaning- Dadism, Transformance Art And Faith
How To Identify A Psychotic, Perverse And Neurotic Community
Did God Kill Jesus, Or Did Jesus Kill God- Some Thoughts On The Crucifixion
What's Going On In The Name "God"
Gravity And Grace- Simone Weil And The World
A Reflection On Miracles
Love Does Not Exist
A Conversation With Barry Taylor On Religionless Christianity
The Most Beautiful Child In The World- The Objective, Subjective And Evental Dimension Of Theology
The Technology Of Theology Is Liturgy- Part 1
The Technology Of Theology Is Liturgy- Part 2
The Challenge Of Knowing What You Believe
The Illusion Of Harmony- In Defence Of Original Sin
We Are An Enigma Unto Ourselves- Belief And Self Deception
Beyond Being- Four Ways Of Thinking "God"
The Happy Reaper- Death, Debt And Anxiety
Embracing The Lack- The Conservative, The Revolutionary And The Rebel
Burning Man And The Eucharist- Gathering Around A Shared Loss
Christianity And The Absurd- Punk, Dadaism And The Foolishness Of Faith
Religionless Christianity
The Rapture
A Religionless Reading Of Faith
How to Eat an Omelette: The Miser, his Money and the Magical Object
The Enigma of Belief
Christianity and Punk (with Barry Taylor)
Christianity and the Absurd