Appearances
Long conversations as a guest, each with a searchable transcript, plus the lectures and interviews that live elsewhere.
6 conversations.
The Nathan Jacobs Podcast1:31:40Part two turns to the text and the fathers: the non-solar 'days' of Genesis, the 'death before the fall' objection, the angelic fall preceding man, and Jacobs's argument that metaphysical realism (natures driving matter's development) is what actually sits in tension with a purely Darwinian account.
The Nathan Jacobs Podcast1:41:00Part one of a Nashville conversation on creation and evolution: Firestone recounts the evangelical creation-project meetings where young-earth, old-earth and evolutionary creationists compared notes, and Jacobs lays out why 'God cannot lie,' privation, and the difference between a binding patristic consensus and the fathers' era-bound science matter before reading Genesis as a corrective origin story.
The Nathan Jacobs Podcast2:14:12Crossover episode three (Firestone Files audio Ep 45): Jacobs tells his own story, from art school and a bad LSD trip that reoriented him, through philosophy under Firestone, to writing, directing and producing feature films and his pilgrimages to Mount Athos and Cyprus as an Orthodox convert.
The Nathan Jacobs Podcast2:01:10Crossover episode two (Firestone Files audio Ep 44): prompted by the Ortlund–Pageau debate, Firestone presses Jacobs on whether an evangelical with orthodox beliefs is 'saved' outside the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Jacobs explains communion, the non-Chalcedonians, the ecumenical councils, and why he made the East–West series to translate between the two worlds.
The Nathan Jacobs Podcast1:34:36Crossover episode one (also released as Firestone Files audio episode 'The LIE about Modern Philosophy'): the two trace 27 years of collaboration from Jacobs as Firestone's undergraduate, the conference-going tradition, co-writing In Defense of Kant's Religion, faculty politics at Trinity, and why Firestone left the ivory tower for podcasting and Turning Point USA.
The Nathan Jacobs Podcast1:39:20Recorded at Trinity in Deerfield in 2024, Jacobs and Firestone dismantle the story that the Enlightenment was atheist empiricists disproving religion, walking through Newton's theology (via Snobelen), Spinoza's pantheism, Kant, and Charles Taylor, and closing with Firestone's worry that the fifty-year era of evangelical scholarship holding its own in the academy is over.
2 conversations.
Parker's Pensées1:10:15Second Parker's Pensées appearance on Kant's moral philosophy and the moral arguments for God and immortality, mapping the three Critiques onto truth, goodness and beauty, comparing Kant's world-as-forum-for-action to Jordan Peterson, and treating the moral law and freedom as the human toolbox for judging competing authorities.
Parker's Pensées1:16:53Parker Settecase's 2021 intro to Kant with Firestone: causation and substance as synthetic a priori, the 'massive problem' Kant left the German idealists, and why reading past the first Critique yields an optimistic Kant who affirms fallenness, redemption, a new self, and banding together in community.
2 interview clips.
EPSociety2:03A two-minute EPS interview clip in which Firestone argues for a Christ-shaped (after Paul Moser) and eschatologically shaped philosophy that pursues truth now in an 'already/not yet' frame so it can serve kingdom work later.
EPSociety3:22A three-minute EPS clip on the challenges facing Christian philosophers: historic cultural change in the West, speaking Christian truth to a culture unprepared to hear it, and the problem of evil made more potent by technology.
Invited lectures and interviews that are not on YouTube.
He is glad to talk Kant, dreams, friendship, the American founding, or how to teach young people to think. Send a note with the show, the audience, and the dates you have in mind.
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