Tag: Transcendence
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This is transcendent power of music. This extraordinary music was composed for the apocalyptic movie “28 Years Later.” There is a powerful death scene in that movie where a mother is dying peacefully of cancer helped by a kind doctor who gives her morphine to relieve the pain. Virtually everyone…
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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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Music is transcendent (existing outside space and time) with the power to move people like nothing else. (I will eventually produce on the blog my Argument from Music for the existence of God.) Watch these videos of contemporary music afficionados listening to “Nights In White Satin” by the Moody Blues…
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I did not know that Francis Schaeffer (of L’Abri) had a son until I saw this interview with him conducted by Sean McDowell. This was painful to watch. Frank claims to be an “atheist who believes in God.” Sean is very gracious in the interview. While it’s obvious that Frank…
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A new analysis from the Institute for Family Studies revealed that “we’ve been witnessing an increase in marital stability since the end of the 1970s,” when divorce became much more common. As it turns out, marriages so far this decade show the most stability out of any other decade in…
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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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