tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post7524936236973587975..comments2024-01-09T12:59:32.666+01:00Comments on Narrative and Ontology: Beauty and the Piss Christ.Phil Sumpterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16491514886782881340noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post-52759817231327380542010-04-14T07:09:57.595+02:002010-04-14T07:09:57.595+02:00Please find some related references which point ou...Please find some related references which point out that the Garden of Eden (or the Rose Garden of The Heart) is the very condition of our existence-being in every moment.<br /><br />www.dabase.org/tfrbkgil.htm<br /><br />http://global.adidam.org/books/hridaya-rosary.html<br /><br />www.fearnomorezoo.org/trees/tree_fundamental.php <br /><br />And that Beauty is also the intrinsic condition of every one and every thing. Or put in another way God IS The Beautiful Itself, and that True Religion is a celebration of The Beautiful<br /><br />www.aboutadidam.org/readings/art_is_love/index.html<br /><br />http://global.adidam.org/books/transcendental-realism.html<br /><br />www.adidabiennale.org/curationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547653347296107692.post-37209062562417567752010-03-15T22:54:52.415+01:002010-03-15T22:54:52.415+01:00Phil, I appreciated your post very much. It remind...Phil, I appreciated your post very much. It reminded me of a paper I heard Trevor Hart give some years ago. It was titled, ‘Ugly as Sin? Beauty, Holiness and the Crucified’ in which he explored the notion of beauty as contradiction. That beauty is not chaotic, and that when it interrupts it takes us beyond its immediate reality. That is, it refuses to be restrained by any creaturely reality. Beauty also creates a frustration in us as it fades and leaves us with a longing not for the beauty itself but for that to which the beauty points us. Beauty points to promise. Hart went on to recall that beauty does not mirror God but rather the true nature of creation as it shall be in its entirety, as we shall be, humanity glorified. Thus, beauty is an experience of the foretaste of final redemption and resurrection rather than of God himself. It is experience in this world as part of God’s promised future. Hart bore witness to the fact that the cross – that place where holiness is mixed up with the world’s sin and ugliness – is principally an act of worship (a very Forsythian way of seeing things!). And he noted that our encounter with beauty is always a Holy Saturday affair – both of the Friday before and of the final word of the Sunday.<br /><br />- Jason GoroncyPhil Sumpterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16491514886782881340noreply@blogger.com