By Frank Burch Brown
Many modes of spiritual expression and adventure have a markedly aesthetic part, even if aesthetic pride itself frequently seems to be freed from ethical or spiritual pursuits. during this ground-breaking paintings, Frank Burch Brown indicates how aesthetics, at least ethics, can play a valuable function within the research of faith and within the perform of theology.
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