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The Quest for Aesthetic Perfection

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The following is an excerpt (first draft) of an article I am writing. The article's title is "Better than New: Reflections on Wabi Sabi as a Metaphor for Christian Perfection." The Greek ideal of beauty is tied to Platonic philosophy. With this, the goal is to conform an object to an ideal form. A carpenter …

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Perfection as Holy Defect

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I am working on an article right now that considers a different metaphor for understanding the goal of "perfection" as a Christian. So this post is a bit of a scratchpad where I put down my thoughts. Commonly, the term is linked with moral holiness and holiness often is connected to the metaphor from the …

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