Jay Dyer

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The Tucker Carlson Show · Jay Dyer: Demons in Hollywood, CIA, Secret Societies, Lone Gunmen, Epstein & Attacks on Christianity · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

In the Middle Ages, it begins with people like William of Ockham.

So Ockham is the first nominalist.

The man with the razor.

the exactly he's known for that um and he challenges some kind of established ideas of like essential it's called essentialism that things have essences and so he also goes up against this idea of universals that there's no such thing as a universal class or essence of a thing and that had been kind of the norm since plato and aristotle as well but um so you get a denial of essentialism and essences and then you get

another guy named Gabriel Bile, and he's very influential on Martin Luther.

And so when the Reformation kicks off, there's this debate about how could you be called righteous if you're not, in fact, righteous?

So if as a human being you are, you know, menstrual rags, as Isaiah says, as the Reformers said, then how could God call you righteous without being a liar?

Well, enter in nominalism, and nominalism is able to say,

ah, because things don't actually have essences, they just have names.

And so if God calls you that, you are that legally, even though in actual fact you're wicked.

So that was, yeah, and Luther was very happy to utilize that nominalistic approach.

And by the way, this is not just my theory.

There's famous Lutheran scholars.

There's a book called Harvest of Medieval Theology by Heiko Obermann.

And the whole thesis of that book by Lutheran is that Luther had to use nominalism.

So we're also, though, moving away not just from theological squabbles, but the idea that things have natures.

And this is how we get to David Hume and Kant and these Enlightenment figures, which give us the scientific revolution, supposedly.

This is how we get to...

there's no male and female.

So you can see kind of the logical train here.

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