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21. Beauty’s Description

David de Bruyn

October 13, 2020

Beauty defined may be abstract and remote; beauty described should be concrete. What does beauty…

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20. Beauty’s Definition: What About the Cross?

David de Bruyn

October 6, 2020

If beauty is ultimately God’s self-knowledge and communicative self-delight, we can explain easily enough why…

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19. Beauty’s Definition: Addenda

David de Bruyn

September 29, 2020

Jonathan Edwards combined insights from each of the theories of beauty, while being primarily theological.…

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18. Beauty Defined (With Some Help From Edwards)

David de Bruyn

September 22, 2020

How do we decide between these competing definitions of beauty? As Christians, we would firstly…

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17. Beauty’s Definition

David de Bruyn

September 15, 2020

Defining beauty is no easy task. A definition of beauty or the beautiful has eluded…

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Tattoos: To Do or Eschew?

David de Bruyn

September 9, 2020

The Christian life is meant to be a life of obedience grounded in discernment. “Test…

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16. Beauty’s Difficulties: Accounting for Taste

David de Bruyn

September 1, 2020

How can beauty be a real property if the question of “taste” enters in? If…

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15. Beauty’s Difficulties: The Problem of Taste

David de Bruyn

August 25, 2020

After more than a century of grappling with Descartes’ division of knowledge into “subjective” and…

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14. Beauty’s Difficulties: A Case of Mistaken Identity

David de Bruyn

August 18, 2020

The topic of beauty suffers not only because its definition is disputed, but because beauty…

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The Bowl

David de Bruyn

August 11, 2020

High upon a volcanic plateau was a village, about an hour’s walk from the Everlasting…

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