By The Daily Wire (World News) | Created at 2024-11-20 20:15:07 | Updated at 2024-11-24 19:48:46
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson’s newest book, “We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine,” became the best-selling book on Amazon shortly after hitting shelves on Tuesday.
“We Who Wrestle with God” was published on the back of Peterson’s worldwide lecture series of the same title. The best-selling book “analyzes the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering, and triumph that stabilize, inspire, and unite us culturally and psychologically.” Peterson’s newest book is the #1 best-selling book on Amazon, ahead of “Cher: The Memoir” and “Melania.”
“Thanks to all my readers, viewers and listeners,” Peterson wrote on X alongside a screenshot of his book at the top of the best-seller list.
We Who Wrestle With God
Is Amazon's bestselling book
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— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) November 20, 2024
A clinical psychologist, Peterson approaches the Bible both “scientifically and spiritually,” offering new insights into well-known biblical stories like that of Cain and Abel, the Tower of Babel, and Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt.
Peterson argues that the Bible is a story of sacrifice, which he holds up as the proper model for human life. He holds the biblical narrative up in contradistinction to the “self-defeating” story around which people frequently order their lives, one of “hedonistic self-gratification or nihilistic collapse.”
“There’s no difference between work and sacrifice, because work is the sacrifice of the future to story, the sacrifice of the present to the future and the sacrifice of the narrow self to the community,” Peterson told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on the most recent “Sunday Special.”
“If it’s all about me in the most narrow way, then there’s no community, right? There’s only the immediate gratification of my whim…and I have to impose those whims on other people using power, because they’re not going to cooperate voluntarily if it’s all about me.”
“We Who Wrestle with God” is now available on Amazon.
Along with his latest best-selling book, Peterson has also recently released a new series on DailyWire+. Peterson’s “Mastering Life Collection” is available to stream now. The series includes “Masculinity,” “Marriage,” “Vision & Destiny,” “Depression & Anxiety,” “Negotiation,” and “Success.”
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Peterson, who has long drawn on biblical stories in his writings and lectures, takes his exegesis to the next level in “We Who Wrestle With God,” as well as in his forthcoming series “The Gospels,” which will be available to stream on DailyWire+ December 1.
