Churches Without Chests

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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The Unexamined Life

David de Bruyn

August 4, 2020

“The unexamined life is not worth living”, said Socrates. Socrates was teaching the need to…

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13. Beauty’s Difficulties: A Christian Response to the Subject-Object Dilemma

David de Bruyn

July 21, 2020

For a while, it seemed chic to be able to say the word postmodern in…

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12. Beauty’s Difficulties: Subjective vs Objective?

David de Bruyn

July 14, 2020

Perhaps the most frequent objection levelled at those wishing to see beauty restored to a…

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11. Beauty’s Difficulties: Philosophy versus Biblical Authority

David de Bruyn

July 7, 2020

The question of beauty among Christians is often stymied before it starts. Some of this…

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10. Beauty and Motivation

David de Bruyn

June 30, 2020

As surprising as it might sound, beauty lies at the heart of motive. Why we…

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