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21. Beauty’s Description
Beauty defined may be abstract and remote; beauty described should be concrete. What does beauty…
20. Beauty’s Definition: What About the Cross?
If beauty is ultimately God’s self-knowledge and communicative self-delight, we can explain easily enough why…
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.…
18. Beauty Defined (With Some Help From Edwards)
How do we decide between these competing definitions of beauty? As Christians, we would firstly…
17. Beauty’s Definition
Defining beauty is no easy task. A definition of beauty or the beautiful has eluded…
Tattoos: To Do or Eschew?
The Christian life is meant to be a life of obedience grounded in discernment. “Test…
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…
15. Beauty’s Difficulties: The Problem of Taste
After more than a century of grappling with Descartes’ division of knowledge into “subjective” and…
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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