The beauty that the Christian artist offers up should not be a work of idealized or sentimentalized beauty, nor should it be a work of dogma disguised as art. It should be, simply, the truest, most authentic work the artist can create. It should shout for joy, weep from fear. It may depict a loving family or a lonely drunk. But because it contains in some greater or lesser sense the essence of its Christian creator, it will be informed by the knowledge of the indwelling of God in creation, the truth that, as Williams writes, “God is possible … in the most grotesque and empty and cruel
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