In Episode 5 of Season 6 of the Ideology Podcast, Drew and Mick dive deep into the topic of hope and its role in a world that often feels meaningless.

The conversation revolves around the significance of transcendence in an immanent world. Drew shares an experience he had in Hawaii, where he noticed a bulletin board in a small town filled with spiritual practices such as cow cuddling and astrology. He reflects on how people are searching for something transcendent, a meaning beyond the material world, and how this points to the lack of transcendence in modern life.

The episode also examines:

• The difference between immanence (the material world we experience daily) and transcendence (the reality beyond what we can know or manipulate).

• How, historically, humans have understood and interacted with both transcendence and immanence.

• The implications of a world that has increasingly lost transcendence, becoming a closed causal system, and the resulting existential crisis many face today.

• The spiritual hunger for something beyond the material world and how this leads people to seek meaning through various practices, even if they seem odd or far-fetched.

Drew and Mick also discuss how the Church can address this deep spiritual hunger by offering a worldview that fully integrates both transcendence and immanence through Jesus Christ, the one who embodies both perfectly.

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Resources referenced:

• How Then Shall We Live? by Francis Schaeffer

• A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

• Barna Group’s latest data on spiritual hunger in the West

  
  

Background track (licensed by Musicbed):

• Lifetime (Instrumental) by The Dramatics