While, as we are told, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” our Euro-centric culture has some pretty specific definitions, including a dominant one—that what is pretty is beautiful. Process theology, however, defines beauty as “a diversity of forms.” We’ll explore beauty by considering the three-stranded braid at the foundation of these United States—freedom, enslavement, and genocide. Our history ain’t pretty, but an enlarged understanding of unfolding reality can show us that it is beautiful, as well as how we might respond to that claim.
Quotation—“Beauty isn’t all about just nice loveliness, like. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. So I think beauty, in that sense, is about an emerging fullness.” –John O’Donohue
What does it mean to be a community of BEAUTY?
Topics: Beauty, Enslavement, Freedom, Genocide