We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine
Jordan B Peterson
Portfolio, £30, 576 pages
The idea of a faithful individual striving to live in right relationship with the divine, despite their shortcomings, dominates Jordan Peterson’s latest work. The title of the book refers to Jacob wrestling with an angel and his subsequent naming by God as Israel, or “one who struggles with God”. Peterson defines the divine loosely: as a reality “truly superordinate to any earthly or secular ruler or even to an explicit principle or law”. His exploration of seven major narratives of the Old Testament is intended to explain to a modern reader how these “biblical stories illuminate the eternal path forward”.
