Every Square Inch Podcast Reconsider Christianity, Part 3: The Search for Transcendence
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Mar 17, 2026 A philosophical tour of human longing for truth, beauty, and goodness. A look at how secular culture wrestles with deeper yearnings. A dive into Greek ideas of the logos and John’s claim that the divine became flesh. An invitation to consider whether transcendent longings find their answer in Jesus.
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Human Longings Map To Truth Beauty And Goodness
- Humanity's deepest quests are for transcendence expressed as truth, beauty, and goodness.
- Robert Cunningham ties everyday longings (meaning, morality, beauty, hope) to the philosophical 'transcendentals' as the language of the beyond.
Greek Logos Framed Transcendence Without A Creator
- Ancient Greek philosophy framed an impersonal governing order as the Logos, explaining design without a creator.
- Cunningham shows how Plato/Aristotle saw religions as allegories pointing toward that rational Logos principle.
John Claims The Logos Became Flesh
- The Gospel of John reframes Greek philosophy by identifying the Logos as a personal, creative God who became flesh.
- Cunningham highlights John 1:1 and 1:14 to argue that the transcendent is now observable in Jesus.