all art is thus presumed to be salutary to one’s spiritual formation as part of God’s creative and redemptive purposes.6 Our next category, religious aesthetics, attempts to understand the nature of aesthetic phenomena in art and the natural world, but especially in relation to one’s participation in religious traditions and expression. Such understanding is predicated chiefly on aesthetic perception and experience. Here, insight from Scripture may indeed inspire a greater sense of spirituality or
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