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What hath beauty to do with systematic theology? In this new monograph, Samuel G. Parkison explores this question by examining the relationship between Christ's divine beauty and regeneration and faith. Building on recent scholarship in (a) theological retrieval of the Christian tradition, and (b) Protestant developments in theological aesthetics, this project is concerned with soteriology's aesthetic dimension.
While many today may consider beauty a mere matter of preference, glibly assuming that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Parkison pushes fiercely in the opposite direction, dignifying beauty by recognizing its objective value-a feature of aesthetics that has fallen on hard times since the so-called Enlightenment, and the subsequent "uglification of culture" (as Sir Roger Scruton put it).
While many today may consider beauty a mere matter of preference, glibly assuming that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Parkison pushes fiercely in the opposite direction, dignifying beauty by recognizing its objective value-a feature of aesthetics that has fallen on hard times since the so-called Enlightenment, and the subsequent "uglification of culture" (as Sir Roger Scruton put it).
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Samuel G. Parkinson
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