![]() And alongside the great theologian of St. Thomas Aquinas who asked his teacher as a young boy, “But master – what is God?” and spent his entire life seeking the answer. Thus he introduces us to the mind and thought of the great St. Reason poses no threat to religion when reason and religion are rightly understood. ![]() It moves us, through the strong yet imperfect gratification it causes in us, towards Godīut Bishop Barron also reminds us that there is no sacrifice of the mind required to be religious. Indeed beauty moves us towards the infinitely beautiful, the all-beatific. As Bishop Barron notes, through beauty something is works on us from within and yet beyond the art. In this first edition of The Pivotal Players (Word On Fire is already working on their second) we are introduced to the great Catholic artist of the Italian Renaissance, Michaelangelo, who through his sculptures (such as his Pietà), his painting in the Sistine chapel, and many other works of art, has lead many to experience the innate human desire for something infinitely greater and all-fulfilling. ![]()
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