Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)”

—David Bentley Hart (The Beauty Of The Infinite: The Aesthetics Of Christian Truth)

Above: Siren with viol, wooden ceiling tile from St. Martin’s Church in Zillis

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