this appreciation we come to apprehend better the aesthetic entailment of how the whole of God’s plan is incomparably greater than the sum of its parts. “Theological aesthetics” does not imply there is homogeneity in the kind of theological scholarship on aesthetics that has been/is being done. On the contrary, the diversity of distinct theological approaches to the subject of aesthetics can only rightly be described as heterogeneous. Effectively there are four basic categories