Beauty Is Oxygen: Finding a Faith That Breathes -- Wesley Vander Lugt, Hardcover

Beauty is oxygen because it comes from the lungs of God.

Isolating individualism, rank injustice, and everyday monotony threaten to suffocate our souls. But Wesley Vander Lugt shows how beauty can breathe life back into us. Written in a graceful cadence that invites readers to turn these pages slowly, Beauty Is Oxygen weaves together theological reflection, poetry, cultural criticism, and Scripture. Throughout, Vander Lugt shows how beauty can break us out of self-centered malaise, promote healing and hope for our broken world, and reenchant our lives.

Beauty is about more than positive feelings or pleasing aesthetics. Beauty is as essential to our souls as oxygen is to our bodies. As readers encounter these traces of divine glory in Vander Lugt's finely crafted meditations, they will find how Christ will "make all things new."

Author: Wesley Vander Lugt
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780802883254

About the Author

Wesley Vander Lugt teaches theology and directs the Leighton Ford Center for Theology, the Arts, and Gospel Witness at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has also served as lead pastor of Warehouse 242 in Charlotte and theologian in residence at First Presbyterian Church, Tulsa.