![]() ![]() The one depends upon and flows out of the other. We want to be perfectly clear that we mean both a physical beauty and a soulful/spiritual beauty. īut in order to make the matter perfectly clear, God has given us Eve. As someone who grew up in a hideously ugly fundamentalist church that started going to liturgical Presbyterian and Episcopalian services almost entirely because the beauty of those churches took my breath away, I agree that American evangelical culture has a tendency to overlook beauty as inconsequential and supercilious instead of something that feeds a soul craving. I start off this section essentially agreeing with John he spends the first few pages talking about beauty in general terms, in nature, as part of God’s creativity, and as something that feeds the human soul– beauty, according to his argument, is a vital part of all God’s creations. This is where my marginalia changes from “I wonder if they’ve thought about _” to “GAH” and “WTF. ![]() John and Stasi were saying some problematic things, some things I disagree with, but there were things happening to balance some of them out. ![]() Up until this point while I was reading Captivating, I was staying pretty optimistic. ![]()
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