The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780898707526)

While everyone is delighted by beauty, and the more alive among us are positively fascinated by it, few are explicitly aware that we can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. Dubay explores the reasons why all of the most eminent physicists of the twentieth century agree that beauty is the primary standard for scientific truth. Likewise, the best of contemporary theologians are also exploring with renewed vigor the aesthetic dimensions of divine revelation. Honest searchers after truth can hardly fail to be impressed that these two disciplines, science and theology, so different in methods, approaches and aims, are yet meeting in this and other surprising and gratifying ways.

This book relates these developments to nature, music, academe and our unquenchable human thirst for unending beauty, truth and ecstasy, a thirst quenched only at the summit of contemplative prayer here below, and in the consummation of the beatific vision hereafter.

Author: Thomas DuBay
ISBN-10: 0898707528
ISBN-13: 9780898707526
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Language: English
Published: 09/22/1999
Pages: 365
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/01/1999 pg. 316