Beauty Is Oxygen: Finding a Faith That Breathes
Ebook
Beauty is oxygen because it comes from the lungs of God.
Isolating individualism, rank injustice, and everyday monotony threaten to suffocate our souls. But Wesley Vander Lugt shows how beauty can breathe life back into us. Written in a graceful cadence that invites readers to turn these pages slowly, Beauty Is Oxygen weaves together theological reflection, poetry, cultural criticism, and Scripture. Throughout, Vander Lugt shows how beauty can break us out of self-centered malaise, promote healing and hope for our broken world, and reenchant our lives.
Beauty is about more than positive feelings or pleasing aesthetics. Beauty is as essential to our souls as oxygen is to our bodies. As readers encounter these traces of divine glory in Vander Lugt’s finely crafted meditations, they will find how Christ will “make all things new.”
The Englewood Review of Books
“Whether one comes to this book with a Christian worldview or not, the content holds deep relevance to all in search of meaning. It will appeal to artists and writers, thinkers, social workers, healers and caregivers, ministers, justice workers, and all who suffer the gnawing ache of beauty. Beauty, Vander Lugt argues, has the capacity to help us ‘risk more love.’ When we learn to breathe in beauty, our faith will be transformed, and so, perhaps, will the world.”
- Title: Beauty Is Oxygen: Finding a Faith That Breathes
- Authors: Wesley Vander Lugt, Sho Baraka
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781467466646, 9780802883254, 0802883257, 1467466646
- Resource ID: LLS:9781467466646
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-02-03T02:19:06Z
Wesley Vander Lugt teaches theology and directs the Leighton Ford Center for Theology, the Arts, and Gospel Witness at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has also served as lead pastor of Warehouse 242 in Charlotte and theologian in residence at First Presbyterian Church, Tulsa.