Man needs beauty out of hunger for God, says author
CATHOLIC REGISTER
By Deborah Gyapong
BARRY’S BAY, Ont. – Man’s need for beauty springs from his profound hunger for God, artist and best-selling author Michael D. O’Brien told a conference at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College. “Beauty is not decoration on a wall” or “sensory stimulus in a concert hall,” but a “celestial language that passes all barriers” and goes “directly to the heart and touches us in ways rational thought cannot,” O’Brien said. Western culture began a process of de-Christianization that began to “reshape man’s consciousness” from that of a providential God to a desolate spiritual cosmos, he said. [More]
By Deborah Gyapong
BARRY’S BAY, Ont. – Man’s need for beauty springs from his profound hunger for God, artist and best-selling author Michael D. O’Brien told a conference at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College. “Beauty is not decoration on a wall” or “sensory stimulus in a concert hall,” but a “celestial language that passes all barriers” and goes “directly to the heart and touches us in ways rational thought cannot,” O’Brien said. Western culture began a process of de-Christianization that began to “reshape man’s consciousness” from that of a providential God to a desolate spiritual cosmos, he said. [More]
