Title: The evidential power of beauty : science and theology meet /
Authors: Dubay, Thomas.
Publisher: Ignatius Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Religion and science.; Aesthetics Religious aspects Christianity
Abstract: "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" -- publisher website (November 2006).
Contents: Charting our course -- Beauty beckons -- Radiant form -- Alive to beauty -- Ugliness -- Convincing power -- Macromarvels -- Midimarvels -- Micromarvels -- Artistry and design -- Anthropic principle and providence -- Crown of the cosmos -- The beauty of sanctity -- Splendor of revelation -- Glory supreme -- Afterglow.