While everyone is delighted by beauty, and the more alive among us are positively fascinated by it, few are explicitly aware that we can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. Dubay explores the reasons why all of the most eminent physicists of the twentieth century agree that beauty is the primary standard for scientific truth. Likewise, the best of contemporary theologians are also exploring with renewed vigor the aesthetic dimensions of divine revelation. Honest searchers after truth can hardly fail to be ...
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While everyone is delighted by beauty, and the more alive among us are positively fascinated by it, few are explicitly aware that we can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. Dubay explores the reasons why all of the most eminent physicists of the twentieth century agree that beauty is the primary standard for scientific truth. Likewise, the best of contemporary theologians are also exploring with renewed vigor the aesthetic dimensions of divine revelation. Honest searchers after truth can hardly fail to be impressed that these two disciplines, science and theology, so different in methods, approaches and aims, are yet meeting in this and other surprising and gratifying ways. This book relates these developments to nature, music, academe and our unquenchable human thirst for unending beauty, truth and ecstasy, a thirst quenched only at the summit of contemplative prayer here below, and in the consummation of the beatific vision hereafter.
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New. Unity, harmony, proportion, wholeness, radiance. Simplicity, elegance, brilliance. Glory, mystery, inexpressibility. So we struggle to define beauty, whether our avenue is philosophical, scientific, or theological. Yet the reality is as inescapable as it is ineffable, regardless of context, running like a thread through every dimension of the created world all the way into the uncreated light of the Godhead. In this extraordinary (and extraordinarily readable) book, Fr. Thomas Dubay points to Beauty, in all its myriad forms, as the primary ''signal of transcendence'' (to put it in Peter Berger's terms) that draws the human gaze from the visible beauties and harmonies all around and in us, to their transcendent Source. We are not mere animals, Dubay tells us: the beasts do not stop to admire the symmetry of a snowflake. We are shown wonder after wonder of the natural world, and of the various scales of the cosmos from its vastness to its subatomic structure; we are then directed to look within ourselves, the microcosm of all that exists. We are invited to understand that the revelation of God in Christ and the Church was not an arbitrary breaking into the natural order, but an unveiling of the Beauty that lies behind all beauties, toward which they all tend. Here is a book that is unabashedly apologetic in nature, showing how the mundane is charged with the presence of grace. Here is reading that is honest and conversational, yet ennobling, worthy of the destiny to which we have been called.
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