Reality San Francisco The True, Good, & Beautiful: The Solicitations of the Spiritual
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Apr 24, 2023 AI Snips
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Desire Points Beyond The World
- Humans possess innate, unsatisfiable desires that point beyond earthly goods.
- C.S. Lewis and Peter Kreeft argue this hunger implies we were made for another, transcendent world.
Transcendentals In Greek Thought
- Greek thought saw truth, goodness, and beauty as transcendent properties rooted in divine being.
- Plato's cave shows particulars point through shadows to a higher, intelligible reality to be known by ascent.
Logos Became Flesh
- John 1 recasts the Greek logos by claiming the divine logic became flesh in Jesus.
- Instead of ascending to truth, goodness, and beauty, the transcendent descends to us in a person.