to our efforts: “The vocation of the theological interpreter of Scripture is to render judgments—ethical, epistemological, and yes, metaphysical—concerning what is ‘meet and right’ for Christians to affirm of God on the basis of the various modes of divine self-showing, self-giving, and self-saying.”33 The task going forward involves answering how theological beauty relates to the beauty of the world, and conceptually to elaborate just what God’s “beautiful self-showing” consists in.34 As will be