God & Beauty

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course is an extended study of the transcendental of Beauty as it relates to the nature of God, with considerations of the divine nature as trinitarian as well as certain Christological and pneumatological dimensions. Possible themes include the coincidence of beauty with truth and goodness, as well as the intersections between beauty and suffering, beauty and sanctity, and beauty and human desire. Readings will be drawn primarily from the Christian intellectual and theological tradition, supplemented along the way with material from the disciplines of philosophy, literature, poetry, art, and music.