February 28, 2023
By Dr. Wiebke-Marie Stock, University of Bonn, Germany/University of Notre Dame, USA
What is beautiful can attract and enchant us, it can uplift us, but it can also distract. It is, therefore, by no means clear whether the beautiful should play a role within the realm of the divine. This text discusses how ideas of beauty were championed or censured by philosophers and theologians.