Churches Without Chests
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…
The Unexamined Life
David de Bruyn
August 4, 2020
“The unexamined life is not worth living”, said Socrates. Socrates was teaching the need to…
13. Beauty’s Difficulties: A Christian Response to the Subject-Object Dilemma
For a while, it seemed chic to be able to say the word postmodern in…
12. Beauty’s Difficulties: Subjective vs Objective?
Perhaps the most frequent objection levelled at those wishing to see beauty restored to a…
11. Beauty’s Difficulties: Philosophy versus Biblical Authority
The question of beauty among Christians is often stymied before it starts. Some of this…
10. Beauty and Motivation
As surprising as it might sound, beauty lies at the heart of motive. Why we…
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