in mind I will comment at points throughout the theological aesthetic I am putting forward how the fittingness identified in a given context may be characteristic not only of the beautiful but manifestly also of other perfections such as God’s righteousness or his wisdom. Integral to our theory is that the beauty of something evokes from the percipient (the perceiving subject) an affective response of delight—that is, a kind of aesthetic pleasure. The lapidary statement by Etienne Gilson provides