Grace Makes More Beauty?
Lindsay has a theory that when we come to know Jesus, he takes our preexisting avenues of aesthetic grace and expands them. For example: Before conversion, indie music and theater dramas were the things that made your soul jump up and wave its arms around, but you thought that the Grand Canyon was a yawn-inducing hole in the ground.
Then, after Jesus resuscitated the walking corpse that was your soul, you walk by the Grand Canyon again and are so inspired that you nearly fall off the edge in a paroxysm of John Piper-like worship. You still love music and drama, but now the Grand Canyon is GQ too–all because Jesus has enlivened your heart with his grace so now you see created beauty in more places.
You think the theory stacks up?
