Beauty
“Beauty is hard to define, but you know it when you see it.”
– Peter Kreeft
The experience of beauty points beyond itself, a sign pointing to transcendence. Jesus, the Beautiful One, is the source of all beauty, and wherever true beauty is found, Christ is at work.
To join Christ in his renewing work, we are invited to live as co-creators with God.
Suggested Resources:
Art and Faith: A Theology of Making, Makoto Fujimura
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Madeleine L’Engle
The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community, Curt Thompson M.D.
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Andy Crouch
“In all that awakens within us the pure and authentic sentiment of beauty, there is, truly, the presence of God. There is a kind of incarnation of God in the world, of which beauty is the sign.”
— Simone Weil