A crisis of imagination and culture that goes deep enough to discredit beauty is fundamentally a religious crisis. It means that our relationship with realities that are basic to human life but can’t be observed, measured, and pinned down has been shattered. At bottom, it’s the restoration of that relationship that’s needed to save the world. That restoration will require beauty, along with goodness and truth, but most of all it will require what is holy.I have added a topic category "Holy" in the side panel. I had skirted around this with "Religion" and "Christianity" but I agree that the holy, the understanding and the expression of the holy, is what is needed in art. I've said in a previous argument that our earthly world isn't wholly religious, but in order for us to make anything meaningful, anything lasting, some kind of transcendence has to be in the mix.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat