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The argument from beauty (also the aesthetic argument) is an argument for the existence of a realm of immaterial ideas or, most commonly, for the existence of God, that roughly states that the evident beauty in nature, art and music and even in more abstract areas like the elegance of the laws of physics or the elegant laws of mathematics is evidence of a creator deity who has arranged these ...
As the reading continues with the maftir (מפטיר ) reading that concludes the parashah, [88] God saw how great man's wickedness was and how man's every plan was evil, and God regretted making man. [89] God expressed an intention to blot men and animals from the earth, but Noah found God's favor. [90]
Santayana objects to the role of God in aesthetics in the metaphysical sense, but accepts the use of God as metaphor. [1] His argument that beauty is a human experience, based on the senses, is influential in the field of aesthetics. [4] However, Santayana would reject this approach, which he called "skirt[ing] psychologism," later on in life. [1]
[4] Athanasius of Alexandria was an author of the phrase about Jesus Christ which has become popular in Christmas homilies: "He was made human so that he might make us sons of god" (De incarnatione 54,3, cf. Contra Arianos 1.39). Divinization in the context of the Eucharist was taught by Gregory of Nyssa and Cyril of Alexandria. The term never ...
Albert Einstein, 1921. Albert Einstein's religious views have been widely studied and often misunderstood. [1] Albert Einstein stated "I believe in Spinoza's God". [2] He did not believe in a personal God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings, a view which he described as naïve. [3]
Sister Helen Prejean is probably not the archetype that comes to mind when you think of a nun, yet she is probably the country's best-known living Catholic layperson, famous for her anti–death ...
Two years after he came home from his second combat tour, Tremillo is still haunted by images of the women and children he saw suffer from the violence and destruction of war in Afghanistan. “Terrible things happened to the people we are supposed to be helping,” he said. “We’d do raids, going in people’s homes and people would get ...
During the time Sterling was writing "The Testimony of the Suns," his poem's subject seemed to change. Two-and-a-half months into writing it, he said: "the whole poem will be on life, or rather the human portion of life." [15] Two-and-a-half weeks later he explained: "As for God, I fear I'll have to leave him in. The poem being a polemic ...