Underland Seth David

Book 1: An Illumination of Matthew Part 2: The Thesis of JesusChapter 7: The Road that Leads to Life (Righteousness III: the Future) This episode concludes Part 2: The Thesis of Jesus. Jake and I continue to study the 1st discourse of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount - looking at chapter 7 of Matthew’s Gospel in the light of first three beattitudes, as well as the ethical-existential problem of orienting to the future.Here we look at Jesus...

Book 1: An Illumination of Matthew Part 2: The Thesis of JesusChapter 6: Trouble for Today (Righteousness II: the Present) This episode continues Part 2: The Thesis of Jesus. Jake and I continue to discuss the 1st discourse of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, looking at chapter 6 of Matthew’s Gospel. This chapter contains the heart of Jesus’ Thesis on Righteousness, or Ethics. It is devoted to the question of the Present, and t...

Book 1: An Illumination of Matthew Part 2: The Thesis of JesusChapter 5: Abolish or Fulfill? (Righteousness I: the Past) This episode continues Part 2: The Thesis of Jesus, beginning with the first discourse of Jesus - what has become known as the Sermon on the Mount. Jake joins again - this time, in my therapy office in Seattle - and we discuss Jesus' masterpiece, his "thesis" on Righteousness, the foundational ethical teaching of Chris...

Book 1: An Illumination of Matthew Part 2: The Thesis of JesusChapter 4: Moonstruck & Demonriddled (The Clinical Context of Jesus) This episode opens Part 2: The Thesis of Jesus. My friend Jake joins me and affords a dialogical approach to the content, as well as a chance to recap the meandering material in Part 1 (and I think this recap in dialogue was much better than the original meanderings from Fall 2020 - so much so that you co...

Book 1: An Illumination of Matthew Part 1: The Dark Ground of Christ Chapter 3: Revolutionary Ferment This episode concludes Part 1: The Dark Ground of Christ. I look at the John the Baptist "moment" and the densely symbolic temptation sequence together as providing the final external and internal preparations for Christ to emerge. 1:03 – What John the Baptist represents 2:56 – The...

Book 1: An Illumination of Matthew Part 1: The Dark Ground of Christ Chapter 2: Of Dreams & Magi This recording reflects my thinking process with respect to this chapter, which aims to be a commentary on Matthew 1:18-2:23. I open up a discussion of a psychoanalytic picture of dreaming, and of Christianity's debt to Zoroastrian religion. I have not clarified my theses yet, so the thinking here...