Beauty Is Your Destiny: How the Promise of Splendor Changes Everything

by Philip Graham Ryken

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2023

Overview

An Examination of Beauty in the Christian Life from Philip Ryken

The world is full of beautiful things—the vibrancy of trees in fall, the joy of sitting around a table with family—but in our fallen world, many beautiful things have been turned into ugly distortions. How should Christians think about beauty in a world that is often ugly?

In Beauty Is Your Destiny, Philip Ryken provides readers with an introduction to the theology and practice of beauty, striving to awaken a longing for beauty that he explains “can only be satisfied in the face of Jesus Christ.” Adapted from chapel messages given at Wheaton College, Ryken considers key topics on Christian thought—including the Trinity, the incarnation, sexuality, and racial diversity—through the lens of beauty, showing how beauty illuminates each of these biblical principles in our world today.

Introduction to the Theology of Beauty: Great for college students, pastors, and small groups

Biblically Based: Examines how beauty is seen in Christian doctrines such as eternity, the church, and the crucifixion

Written by Philip Ryken: President of Wheaton College and author of Grace Transforming; Is Jesus the Only Way?; and Loving the Way Jesus Loves

Key Features

• Examines how beauty is seen in Christian doctrines such as eternity, the church, and the crucifixion
• Provides readers with an introduction to the theology and practice of beauty
• Adapted from chapel messages given at Wheaton College

Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: In the Eye of the Beholder—The Beauty of Eternity
• Chapter 2: The King in His Beauty—The Beauty of the Trinity
• Chapter 3: For the Beauty of the Earth—The Beauty of Creation
• Chapter 4: You Are So Beautiful—The Beauty of God’s Image
• Chapter 5: When Sex Is Beautiful—The Beauty of Chastity
• Chapter 6: Beautiful Savior—The Beauty of God Incarnate
• Chapter 7: That Old, Ugly Cross—The Beauty of the Crucifixion
• Chapter 8: Beautiful Community—The Beauty of Christ’s Bride
• Chapter 9: It’s a Beautiful Life—The Beauty of Generous Living

Product Details

• Title: Beauty Is Your Destiny: How the Promise of Splendor Changes Everything
• Author: Philip Graham Ryken
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 176
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christian life; Aesthetics › Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781433587726, 9781433587757, 9781433587733, 1433587726, 1433587750, 1433587734
• Resource ID: LLS:BTYSCHNGVRYTHNG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-08-04T16:02:45Z

About Philip Graham Ryken

Philip G. Ryken (1966–) has served as the president of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, since 2010. He earned degrees from Wheaton College, Westminster Theological Seminary, and a doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Ryken was the senior minister of Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church (where James Boice and Donald Barnhouse served previously) for about 15 years before he became the president of Wheaton College. He has been ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.

Ryken has authored over 30 books, including several volumes in the Preaching the Word Collection, the Reformed Expository Commentary, the Crossway Spiritual Growth Collection, Written in Stone, Discovering God in Stories from the Bible, and Exodus: Saved for God's Glory.