Religious Studies 1020A/B Lecture 6: REL1020B Lecture 6

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1020A/B
• Professor: Father Denis Grecco

Document Summary

Tracing the history and loss of christian belief. Why was it so easy to believe back then but now so hard to believe. To draw out beauty requires some work, being attentive, finding language to draw out. Almost everything in our culture works against this. Depth that is not always on the surface. Beauty is what is pleasing to the eye. Beauty intends to draw us out from ourselves. There is something that holds us to beautiful objects. We never fully get a grasp on it. In christian belief invisible dimension of god desiring us. Beauty and the sublime, hard concepts to grasp, not easy to define. Rhetorical sublime- language that is impressive rather than something that is densely argued. Ancient understanding of sublime undergoes a shift in meaning. Appeal to emotion, shocking mixed with fear and dread. Feeling of awe produced when you look at grand things (cliffs, mountains etc) Appealing to the sense of the natural sublime.