Benjamin T. Quinn
Benjamin T. Quinn (PhD, University of Bristol, UK) is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and is the founder and President Emeritus of The Davenant Institute.
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Wonder and awe of the beautiful is essential to the human experience. Our souls are often shaped and formed by the aesthetic experiences provided by the Creator. When we neglect this aspect of our lives, we fail to realize how God has created us uniquely to not only enjoy beauty, but to also create the beautiful. A distinctly Christian vision of these realities opens our eyes to see how God has enchanted our world to draw us toward Him, the source and substance of beauty, for a deeper experience of the Christian life.
In Drawn by Beauty: Awe and Wonder in the Christian Life, pastor and theologian Matthew Z. Capps points to the reality that our spirits are formed by God through the beautiful experiences that he offers. This book is a call to not only acknowledge the effect that beauty has on the human spirit, but it is an appreciation of the obviously divine presence in the things of this world that are truly awe inspiring.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: A Meditation on a Seashore
Waking Up to the Beauty around Us
Chapter 2: The Echoes of Footsteps in Empty Rooms
Why Has Beauty Become a Theological Beast?
Chapter 3: The World, the Word, and Wide-Eyed Wonder
Beauty and the Two Books of God
Chapter 4: Behold, Our Beautiful God
Tasting and Seeing That the Lord Is Good
Chapter 5: Prone to Wander, Pardoned to Wonder
From Bondage to Beholding His Beauty
Chapter 6: Christians, the True Aesthetes
Imaging God in Our Being and Making
Chapter 7: Further Up and Further In
Meadows, Museums, and Spiritual Formation
Chapter 8: A Glimmer of Transcendence
On Artisans, Art, and Appreciation
Appendix: Coming to Art with Your Senses
Aesthetic Awareness for Art Appreciation
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index
Wonder and awe of the beautiful is essential to the human experience. Our souls are often shaped and formed by the aesthetic experiences provided by the Creator. When we neglect this aspect of our lives, we fail to realize how God has created us uniquely to not only enjoy beauty, but to also create the beautiful. A distinctly Christian vision of these realities opens our eyes to see how God has enchanted our world to draw us toward Him, the source and substance of beauty, for a deeper experience of the Christian life.
In Drawn by Beauty: Awe and Wonder in the Christian Life, pastor and theologian Matthew Z. Capps points to the reality that our spirits are formed by God through the beautiful experiences that he offers. This book is a call to not only acknowledge the effect that beauty has on the human spirit, but it is an appreciation of the obviously divine presence in the things of this world that are truly awe inspiring.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: A Meditation on a Seashore
Waking Up to the Beauty around Us
Chapter 2: The Echoes of Footsteps in Empty Rooms
Why Has Beauty Become a Theological Beast?
Chapter 3: The World, the Word, and Wide-Eyed Wonder
Beauty and the Two Books of God
Chapter 4: Behold, Our Beautiful God
Tasting and Seeing That the Lord Is Good
Chapter 5: Prone to Wander, Pardoned to Wonder
From Bondage to Beholding His Beauty
Chapter 6: Christians, the True Aesthetes
Imaging God in Our Being and Making
Chapter 7: Further Up and Further In
Meadows, Museums, and Spiritual Formation
Chapter 8: A Glimmer of Transcendence
On Artisans, Art, and Appreciation
Appendix: Coming to Art with Your Senses
Aesthetic Awareness for Art Appreciation
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index