How Can I See the Beauty of God?

Ask Pastor John

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🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Seeing and loving art and seeing and loving divine glory are not the same. They require different ways of seeing. So how can we see the beauty of God?

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0:00.0	What is God's beauty?
0:07.1	Can we see it?
0:08.5	Can we feel it?
0:09.5	If we go looking for his beauty and scripture, what are we looking for?
0:13.6	If we go looking for his beauty and creation, where do we find it?
0:17.8	Answer to questions like these comprise the essence of my favorite book of 2018, Jonathan
0:24.7	King's The Beauty of the Lord theology as aesthetics published by Lexin Press.
0:32.0	Jonathan King was a new author to me in 2018, I discovered that in seminary he studied
0:37.0	under Michael Horton, and he completed his Ph.D. work at Ted's under Kevin Van Hooser.
0:43.2	Jonathan now serves as lecturer in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at the Universitas
0:48.3	Polita Herapin in Indonesia.
0:51.2	Today I'm breaking the mold, this will be a long conversation.
0:55.7	I suspect it'll go an hour or so.
0:57.6	Jonathan joins me from his apartment in Jakarta.
1:01.2	It's 7 a.m. in Minneapolis, 8 p.m.
1:04.0	Jakarta.
1:05.0	I'm still waking up.
1:06.0	Jonathan, hello.
1:07.0	Thank you for your book of the Beauty of the Lord theology as aesthetics.
1:11.3	As you know, for many of us, beauty is a very subjective concept, and divine beauty is
1:18.6	for us really even more abstract altogether.
1:22.2	But here at D.G., of course, we love talking about God's beauty, Christ's beauty, the beauty
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