Jordan Peterson, Noah and the Flood
by Christopher Kaczor, MercatorNet:
Unpacking an allegorical interpretation of the Biblical story.
Having previously looked at his understanding of Adam and Eve as well as Cain and Abel, we turn now to Jordan Peterson’s interpretation of the story of Noah and the Flood.
While acknowledging reports of an ancient flood present in many different cultures, Peterson, the Canadian clinical psychologist and author of the influential best-seller, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, focuses on what the story of Noah means for us today.
In offering an interpretation that goes beyond the historical, Peterson follows in the footsteps of Jerome, Origen and Cyprian.
St. Augustine once said, “One does not read in the Gospel that the Lord said: ‘I will send you the Holy Spirit who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon.’ For he willed to make them Christians, not astronomers.”
The purpose of the story of Noah is not to make us historians of ancient rainfall patterns.
So, what can we learn from Noah and the Flood?
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