Meaning in the Middle

Jesus

Episode Summary

What if the mythos of Jesus is still the greatest story ever told, even if we don’t believe it happened? In this episode, Ryan and Landon find some surprising and profound commonality in their approach to Jesus - who he was and is, and what he means for our pursuit of love.

Episode Notes

Whether you believe in Jesus or not, you can’t deny his story has had a radical effect on human society over the past 2000 years. While the debates about what actually happened or did not happen matter, we're are choosing to meditate on what Jesus’ story means for us, particularly in our understanding of self-sacrificial love and transcendence.

Useful references from the discussion: 

• Jordan Peterson -  is a Canadian clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, author, and professor emeritus of psychology
• John Vervaeke - is a professor of cognitive science at the University of Toronto, who has published a series on Youtube, called "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis"
• Carl Jung - was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Search his work on archetypes
• Paul Johannes Tillich - was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century
   

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