Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Is the beauty of art based merely on our personal preferences? Or do objective principles and standards determine what is truly beautiful? Today, R.C. Sproul explains how our answer to these questions influences our entire worldview.
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| 0:00.0 | We have a society that says we have truths, but no truth. |
| 0:06.0 | We have beauties, but no beauty, purposes, but no purpose. |
| 0:20.0 | What is beauty? Can we know if something is beautiful? |
| 0:24.0 | Can someone objectively know that something is a beautiful piece of music |
| 0:28.0 | or a beautiful painting? To put it another way, today on Renewing Your Mind, |
| 0:33.0 | RC Sproul will answer the question, is beauty in the eye of the beholder? |
| 0:39.0 | We live in a subjective age, truth and goodness have been redefined |
| 0:43.0 | or left up to the individual, and the same is true for beauty. |
| 0:48.0 | Today's message is from Dr. Sproul's series titled, |
| 0:52.0 | Rediscovering the Beauty of the Arts. |
| 0:55.0 | And today is also the final day that you can request this nine-message series |
| 0:59.0 | for your donation of any amount at RenewingRemind.org. |
| 1:03.0 | So are there principles, normative standards that can help a Christian |
| 1:08.0 | recognize a beautiful painting or sculpture, a beautiful piece of literature or dance? |
| 1:13.0 | Well, here's Dr. Sproul to answer. |
| 1:18.0 | We continue now with our study of the Christian and the arts. |
| 1:22.0 | We're going to turn our attention today to the age-old debate |
| 1:29.0 | over the nature of aesthetics, which is this. |
| 1:34.0 | Is beauty something that is discerned purely subjectively? |
| 1:43.0 | Or are there, in fact, external, objective standards |
| 1:51.0 | or criteria by which something may be judged to be beautiful? |
| 1:58.0 | Now, we are living in a period in Western history where the dominant motif |
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