arbitrary.9 David Bentley Hart has likewise urged that the Christian gospel addresses the world not primarily as a series of arguments but as a story involving a unique interrelation of truth and beauty: “Making its appeal first to the eye and heart, as the only way it may ‘command’ assent, the church cannot separate truth from rhetoric, or from beauty.”10 This vision of the unity of the transcendentals is an ancient one, but it has fresh relevance in our current cultural moment, for at least three