A nine-month old brain child concerning Beauty and many of its components is finally done being birthed on a blog.  Come see…

by Paul Burkhart

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In about January of this past year, I received word that seven months from then, in August, I would be giving a message at Epiphany Fellowship on the topic of Beauty, of all things. This terrified me and I immediately began listening to every lecture, reading every article, and checking out every book in the library on the topic to prepare. Then I began working on the manuscript for this message. By the time I finished, I had produced a 43-page manuscript for a 40-minute message.  The message answers several questions: Why we long for Beauty?  What is Beauty? What Things are Beautiful? and How do we respond to Beauty?

The message went really well, but of course, a lot was cut out of the full manuscript for the sake of time. For that reason, a couple of months ago, I started a series on my blog that went through the various sections of the manuscript in bite-sized chunks, so that others could read it. Well, yesterday, three months after the original message was given, I finished that series on my personal blog and I wanted to plug it to the readers of this site. Below, you’ll find a complete directory of the fourteen parts of the series, along with links to the full audio and original manuscript that the message was based upon. I hope this is helpful and edifying to all of you. Be sure to send feedback, as I hope to build this out even more in the future, perhaps into a book-length project. We’ll see. Enjoy.

• Why do we long for Beauty?
  • Eternity in Our Heart: The God of Beauty, the Beauty of God
  • Why We Long (Setting the Stage) [Eccl.2+3] |Beauty{1}
• What is Beauty?
  • May I Offer a Definition of | Beauty{2}
• What Things are Beautiful, and why are they Beautiful?
  • The Triune God is Beauty{3}
  • Nature, Science, & the Structure of Time | Beauty{4}
  • Human Beauty{5} | (Anthropological Aesthetics)
  • Ah, the Beauty{6} of Art
  • (Review: John Navone’s “Toward a Theology of Beauty”)
• How do we respond to this Beauty?
  • How Do We Respond to Beauty{7}?
  • The Contemplation of Beauty{8}
  • Enjoying Beauty{9}, Part I: Praise it.
  • Baptized in Beauty{10} (Enjoy, Pt. II)
  • Proclaiming & Producing Beauty{11}
• Conclusion
  • The Gospel is Beautiful{12} | it is finished

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