David Bentley Hart: Quotes about beauty

David Bentley Hart is American theologian. Explore interesting quotes on beauty.
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“Christ is a persuasion, a form of evoking desire… Such an account [of Christ] must inevitably make an appeal to beauty.”

David Bentley Hart

Source: The Beauty of the Infinite (2003), p. 3

“Beauty crosses every boundary, traverses every series, and so manifests the God who transcends every division.”

David Bentley Hart

Source: The Beauty of the Infinite (2003), p. 21

“Creation's being is God's pleasure, creation's beauty God's glory; beauty reveals the shining of an uncreated light. … Creation is only a splendor that hangs upon that life of love and knowledge, and only by grace; it is first and foremost a surface, a shining fabric of glory, whose inmost truth is its aesthetic correspondence to the beauty of divine love. … It is delight that constitutes creation, and so only delight can comprehend it, see it aright, understand its grammar. Only in loving creation's beauty—only in seeing that creation truly is beauty—does one apprehend what creation is.”

David Bentley Hart

Source: The Beauty of the Infinite (2003), p. 252