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God's Beauty‐in‐Act: An Artful Renewal of Human Imagining
Author(s) -
Garrett Stephen M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of systematic theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1468-2400
pISSN - 1463-1652
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2012.00650.x
Subject(s) - beauty , action (physics) , philosophy , the renaissance , expression (computer science) , theology , human life , aesthetics , art , art history , humanity , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
This article seeks to contribute to the ongoing renaissance in theological discourse that strives to heed Karl Barth's call to stop perpetuating the gap in our knowledge of God by integrating beauty into our theological discourse. In this way, God's beauty, understood as the fittingness of the incarnate Son's actions in the Spirit to the Father's will that radiates the splendor of God's triune love to the world, is seen to renew human imagining, which is essential not only of human being but also for creative expression and ethical action.