tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post7211274734212225573..comments2024-03-28T09:36:30.991+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: 1611 And All ThatDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-25649880586300788722011-11-14T17:18:00.884+00:002011-11-14T17:18:00.884+00:00Precisely so. Thus, since God is Immutable, so the...Precisely so. Thus, since God is Immutable, so the true, the good and the beautiful are Immutable.<br /><br />Since God cannot be known by spatial, temporal and material beings save He disclose Himself within and through his spatial, temporal and material Creation, so the true, the good and the beautiful cannot be known save by that divine self-disclosure, and wherever we discern the true, the good and the beautiful, there we hear and read the Word of God, the Divine Logos Incarnate in Jesus Christ.<br /><br />Since the Absolute Truth, Absolute Goodness and Absolute Beauty is (not "are") the absolute interpersonal intimacy and love that is the Life of the Triune God, so the true, the good and the beautiful are always to be measured and evaluated in terms of interpersonal intimacy and love, which is always a participation in that Triune Life, possibly only by the grace of God, so that wherever is that intimacy, there is that participation, there is grace, there is truth, goodness and beauty.<br /><br />And so on, and on, and on. The morally evil cannot have aesthetic, including literary, merit. Both education standards and those of general behaviour are bound to decline in an ugly environment. Both doctrinal and moral orthodoxy are bound to decline where the Sacred Liturgy is celebrated without due reverence. It is wonderfully, gloriously inexhaustible.<br /><br />The question is the relationship between adherence to the Book of Common Prayer or the King James Bible on the one hand, and adherence to doctrinal orthodoxy and the Christian Ethic on the other. That is precisely the question of how beautiful it really is, or really is not.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-3335527060037769512011-11-14T17:05:15.104+00:002011-11-14T17:05:15.104+00:00I thought you were a Thomist? You certainly were i...I thought you were a Thomist? You certainly were in your last book. The Divine Attributes are identical among themselves and with the Divine Essence, and include Absolute Truth, Absolute Goodness and Absolute Beauty.<br /><br />It follows that nothing can be true which is not both good and beautiful, nothing can be good which is not both true and beautiful, and nothing can be beautiful which not both true and good. There is a real identity between doctrinal orthodoxy, moral goodness, and good liturgical aesthetics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com