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Theological Aesthetics: A Reader
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“This is the unapproachable light wherein he dwells
TRULY, 0 Lord, this is the unapproachable light in which thou dwellest for truly there is nothing else which can penetrate this light, that it may see thee there. Truly, I see it not, because it is too bright for me. And yet, whatsoever I see, I see through it, as the weak eye sees what it sees through the light of the sun, which in the sun itself it cannot look upon. My understanding cannot reach that light, for it shines too bright. It does not comprehend it, nor does the eye of my soul endure to gaze upon it long. It is dazzled by the brightness, it is overcome by the greatness, it is overwhelmed by the infinity, it is dazed by the largeness, of the light. 0 supreme and unapproachable light! 0 whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not. (Ch. i6, pp. 2 2-3 )”
― Theological Aesthetics: A Reader
TRULY, 0 Lord, this is the unapproachable light in which thou dwellest for truly there is nothing else which can penetrate this light, that it may see thee there. Truly, I see it not, because it is too bright for me. And yet, whatsoever I see, I see through it, as the weak eye sees what it sees through the light of the sun, which in the sun itself it cannot look upon. My understanding cannot reach that light, for it shines too bright. It does not comprehend it, nor does the eye of my soul endure to gaze upon it long. It is dazzled by the brightness, it is overcome by the greatness, it is overwhelmed by the infinity, it is dazed by the largeness, of the light. 0 supreme and unapproachable light! 0 whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not. (Ch. i6, pp. 2 2-3 )”
― Theological Aesthetics: A Reader
“As Christians our task is to mirror the divine artist as faithfully as possible. Aquinas, like his fellow thinkers, equates imagination with fantasy. He affirms the mediating function of the imagination between mind and body and perceives it as `a treasure-store of forms received through the senses”
― Theological Aesthetics: A Reader
― Theological Aesthetics: A Reader
“Reason needs the imagination and at the same time must transcend it because what really matters is the search for truth.”
― Theological Aesthetics: A Reader
― Theological Aesthetics: A Reader
