Christian Worldview: Aesthetics

Agenda

Introduction

Must art be beautiful?

What is beauty?

“Aesthetics”

Greek word = to feel, sense, or perceive

Center of word, root is “thea” = to see, view, look at

Theoreticians

theatergoers

anesthesiologists

This word was not did not explain a subset of Philosophy until the mid-18th century.

Distinctions