An Analogy of Delight
“…[T]his beauty of the Trinity, this orderliness of God’s perichoresis, is the very movement of delight, of the divine persons within one another, and so the analogy that lies between worldly and divine beauty is a kind of analogia delectationis [analogy of delight]. The delightfulness of created things expresses the delightfulness of God’s infinite distance. For Christian thought, then, delight is the premise of any sound epistemology: 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 on apprehend what creation is.”
— David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite, p. 252–253.
17 February 2007 |
tags: Aesthetics, David Bentley Hart
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