The Witness of Beauty and Other Essays

Beauty has often been neglected in contemporary Christian thought. It is considered to be a matter of purely subjective opinion, a means of personal diversion with no greater significance for the Christian life. In this collection, James Clark explores the classical theology of beauty inspired by figures such as Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas, with a particular emphasis on the power of beauty to witness to God in an age where discursive reason has little currency. Additional essays address the political utility of natural law, the nature of Anglicanism amid contested definitions, and other topics.