Status Updates From The Ethics of Beauty

“Starting with theophany means falling in love with what is beautiful. Saint Porphyrios, the contemporary Greek spiritual father, expressed this by saying that we must cultivate our eros for Christ, first of all. Or, as St. Paul said, "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,…“

Already living up to its reputation in the preface, but man was this book hard to get ahold of.

I have been reading this book off and on for a couple years. So much meat in it, that it takes a long time to process. I am determined to finish it this year though. I am sure I’ll reread parts of it over and over again. Truly an astonishing book.