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Published by Ignatius Press September 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 1883937086ISBN 13: 9781883937089
Seller: Eighth Day Books, LLC, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
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Paper Back. Condition: New.
Published by Ignatius Press September 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0898707641ISBN 13: 9780898707649
Seller: Pella Books, Pella, IA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Used Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.
Published by Ignatius Press September 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0898707528ISBN 13: 9780898707526
Seller: Eighth Day Books, LLC, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
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Paper Back. Condition: New. Unity, harmony, proportion, wholeness, radiance. Simplicity, elegance, brilliance. Glory, mystery, inexpressibility. So we struggle to define beauty, whether our avenue is philosophical, scientific, or theological. Yet the reality is as inescapable as it is ineffable, regardless of context, running like a thread through every dimension of the created world all the way into the uncreated light of the Godhead. In this extraordinary (and extraordinarily readable) book, Fr. Thomas Dubay points to Beauty, in all its myriad forms, as the primary ''signal of transcendence'' (to put it in Peter Berger's terms) that draws the human gaze from the visible beauties and harmonies all around and in us, to their transcendent Source. We are not mere animals, Dubay tells us: the beasts do not stop to admire the symmetry of a snowflake. We are shown wonder after wonder of the natural world, and of the various scales of the cosmos from its vastness to its subatomic structure; we are then directed to look within ourselves, the microcosm of all that exists. We are invited to understand that the revelation of God in Christ and the Church was not an arbitrary breaking into the natural order, but an unveiling of the Beauty that lies behind all beauties, toward which they all tend. Here is a book that is unabashedly apologetic in nature, showing how the mundane is charged with the presence of grace. Here is reading that is honest and conversational, yet ennobling, worthy of the destiny to which we have been called.
Published by Ignatius Press September 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0898707722ISBN 13: 9780898707724
Seller: BookMarx Bookstore, Steubenville, OH, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: New. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours.