Beauty itself is one of the few things that truly lasts. As humans are created in God's image, we cannot help but be creators ourselves. And we are at our finest when we are making something beautiful.
Furthermore, Christians have the strongest and best explanation of why some things are beautiful and others are not. To experience beauty is a unique human experience, and other worldviews have a hard time explaining why something is beautiful.
Beauty in science was born out of a Christian worldview: the idea that the world was created by an organized Creator who is rational and put things in their place. Because of this view, Christians believed the world was orderly, testable, rational, and that science could thus flourish in repeatable experiments. Naturalism, which results in chaos, and pantheim, which results in an impersonal uncertainty, could not have started the beauty of science.
Beauty in art was also, to some extent, born out of a Christian worldview. But in this vein humans have always created art, since our very beginnings. But the best art, the most beautiful art, is born out of a Christian worldview. Painting, dance, sculpture, music, and architecture are all at their finest when considering a Creator God. But the only reason I wrote all that was not so that you could disagree or agree, really. Normally that's what this blog is about.
Sometimes it's better just to enter in to the beauty. So I give you Bach: one of my favorite composers.
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One wonders which century you are living in when you post such provincial opinions on Beauty?
Especially as all of the Sacred Art of the entire Great Tradition of humankind is now freely available on the internet.
Please find a completely different Understanding of Beauty, and of God AS The Beautiful,via these related references.
www.aboutadidam.org/readings/art_is_love/index.html
www.aboutadidam.org/readings/transcending_the_camera/index.html
http://global.adidam.org/books/transcendental-realism.html
www.daplastique.com
www.adidamla.org/newsletters/toc-aprilmay2006.html
Plus a related site on the non-humans.
www.fearnomorezoo.org
Anonymous,
You probably feel really good and smug about using the word "provincial."
But one wonders whether your art is even comprehensible. These sites you post are pantheistic in tone and content. Basically, the worldview you are promoting demonstrates that all is divine and needs to transcend into the impersonal oneness of the impersonal and unified divine.
If that is true, how could anything be provincial? Isn't everything supposed to point to the impersonal unified divine in everything? Atman is Brahman and Brahman is Atman, no?
I like to believe in true things. I don't much care whether you think something is provincial or limited to time and space. I care if something is true.
There are standards in beauty. Indeed, some of the things you posted were beautiful in their own respects, but only as they hint at or point to a divine Creator, distinct and different and transcendent of His own creation.
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