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Beauty and the Divine: God as the Source of All Splendor

Beauty and the Divine: God as the Source of All Splendor

Goodwin, Sidney

Paperback

PhilosophyCatholicismGeneral Christianity

ISBN13: 9798233746086
Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
Published: Apr 15 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Catholic tradition has long insisted that beauty is not a luxury or an ornament added to the spiritual life, but a fundamental dimension of reality itself. It is one of the great transcendentals-alongside truth and goodness-properties that belong to being as such and therefore to God in the highest degree. To say that God is beautiful is not to indulge in poetic metaphor; it is to make a metaphysical claim about the nature of the One who is the source of all that exists. Beauty, in this sense, is not merely what pleases the senses but what reveals the splendor of truth and the harmony of goodness. It is the radiance of being. And because all created things participate in being, they also participate in beauty, each in its own measure.

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