"The
biblical attitude toward beauty stands opposed to a movement within
contemporary art and aesthetics....that disparages beauty and form in
arts [and] produces art that deliberately attempts to destroy form in
art....these artists are "making a statement." But what kind of
statement is it? That the universe is ugly and meaningless and chaotic.
This is not the christian view of the universe. In a
christian world view, the universe has meaning. That the world is
fallen and frequently ugly is something that Christians know even better
than others. But at the heart of Christianity is the redemptive
principle that it is not enough to leave the fallen world where it is."
-Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination
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