THEOLOGY OF BEAUTY: A WAY TO UNITY?

30-10-2008


Between utopia and disenchantment, a renewed nostalgia for Beauty


The rediscovery of beauty as a way to Truth and as a possible contribution to the building of a better world is the result of a double crisis: on the one hand, the crisis of the pretensions of the modern ideological utopia; on the other hand, the critical process of renouncing larger horizons of meaning, so frequent in post-modern cultures. If the utopia of ideological dreams advanced the pretension of grasping the Whole, to the point of becoming totalitarian and violent, post-modernity seems to surrender itself exclusively to the fragment, by giving up every search for meaning and a larger hope.