Abstract
AbstractContemporary philosophical aesthetics and theology alike all but dismiss the motif of beauty as an essentialist notion with minimal explanatory power. This dismissal appears to be in part because of the relegation of beauty to the ornamental and innocuous pleasant, signifying the beautiful as an escape from the pain of reality. On a popular level, beauty has lost its force in the marketplace of ideas since it has come to mean whatever the “beholder” wants the term to mean and has little ability to convey meaning beyond the realm of personal taste. Beauty, though, has not always been relegated to the margins and is being reasserted today in Christian theology through the revival of theological aesthetics.
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