Dr. Jacobs is feeling some Christmas nostalgia today and wondered, "What is this feeling, so sudden and new?" To get to the bottom of this, of course, he's going to explore the topic of human nature and divine essence and energies. Diving back into the history of ideas and coming out the other side with the answer: all creation groans.

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(00:00:00) Intro

(00:00:00) Christmas, longing, and nostalgia

(00:10:39) What is the nature of man?

(00:13:28) Aristotle, essance, and energies

(00:18:06) Philo of Alexandria, essance, and energies

(00:20:22) The communicable nature of God

(00:26:06) Saint Paul and energia

(00:30:04) Plato, Deuteronomy, images, and archetypes

(00:37:57) The nature of creation

(00:52:04) Man is a microcosm of all that God has made

(01:09:03) How God’s energies interact in the world

(01:21:31) The deeper feeling