Tag: beauty
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The argument from beauty is perhaps my favorite apologetic argument. While very powerful, it is also one of the least used. Peter Leithhart expounds on the apologetics of beauty here, offering keen and valuable insight. But if, as Augustine seemed to believe, man is created so as to respond to…
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I realize the popular conception is that beauty is subjective, “in the eye of the beholder.” However, I affirm with many theologians and philosophers that beauty of objective because it originates and is grounded in the very nature of God (God is beautiful – Psalm 27:4). To quote Australian apologist…
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Beauty is the most mysterious (and most misunderstood) of the transcendents, evoking another world. We experience beauty every day with all five of our senses: i.e., seeing a rainbow, hearing “Chevaliers de Sangreal” by Hans Zimmer, smelling “Neroli Savuage” by Creed, feeling fine silk and tasting dark chocolate. Groothuis reminds…
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Is beauty subjective or objective? The answer to that question is regarded by some philosophers as the “single most-prosecuted disagreement in the literature”. The popular conception of course is that beauty is subjective “in the eye of the beholder.”However, philosopher Arlyn Culwick argued in 2019 that the ancient transcendentals are…
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That we are capable of such great beauty as this . . .
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Aristides of Athens wrote in 125 AD. His Apology is the earliest extant Christian apology. It is available online here or in very nice booklet form on Amazon here. Darren Slade (PhD, Theology, Church History) has a very nice summary here of Aristides and his Apology. According to Slade, “His…
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Noah McKay has an interesting apologetic Argument From Beauty here. It’s an abductive argument, meaning it concludes with probability, not certainty. Here is his argument which he defends at length; McKay does a credible job of presenting his argument and defending it against objections. It’s worth reading in entirety. This…
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(The following is extracted from a research paper entitled “The Argument From Beauty” submitted on Jun 20, 2022 at Southern Seminary.) We often hear that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Does that mean that beauty is subjective and not objective? Is beauty objective or subjective? The ancient…
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