Stu McGregor Stu McGregor

Beauty as God’s glory…

Stu McGregor explores the tension between an abstract, transcendent understanding of God and the need for a tangible, immanent presence in daily life. Wrestling with theological perspectives, particularly Paul Tillich’s notion of God beyond human comprehension, he finds that while this view frees God from rigid definitions, it also distances the divine from personal experience. A pilgrimage on the Camino forced a choice on for him—stay in the faith or leave—and he chooses to remain, drawn to the richness of Christ’s teachings. Yet, the absence of a felt presence lingers until David Bentley Hart’s The Beauty of the Infinite reintroduces beauty as a bridge between the real and the divine. Beauty, objective and transcendent, dissolves boundaries and reveals God’s glory, offering a way to reconnect with a faith that had become overly abstract.

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