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Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christianity presents a glorious vision for culture, a vision overflowing with truth, beauty, and goodness. It’s a vision that stands in stark contrast with the anemic modern (and postmodern) perspectives that dominate contemporary life. Medieval Christianity began telling a beautiful story about the good life, but it was silenced mid-sentence. The Reformation rescued truth, but its modern...

that whatever proceeds from us must be beautiful. But in a created world, beauty can only be reflected glory. Our world is filled with moons, and there is only one sun. As much as we would like the aesthetic process to be originative, as much as we would like to be as God and create ex nihilo, we are left with the fact that mere man is not much; his breath is in his nostrils. In order to recover a sense of the beautiful, we must come to see it in connection with the two other great questions—“What
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