Calvin and de Sales shared a common delight in the role played by all created beings in singing the glory of God. Calvin, in his Psalms commentaries, and de Sales, in his Treatise on the Love of God, emphasized a rich theology of divine providence. Their God was intimately involved in loving and sustaining the natural world. Calvin spoke of the world as a theater of God’s glory; de Sales spoke of beauty as God’s way of attracting the affection of all creation.3
