1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,400 This is the redeemed imagination podcast, a podcast, of the 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,900 Anselm Society on re enchanting the church. 3 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,200 Hello, welcome back to the redeemed. 4 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,800 Imagination podcast. This is Brian Brown and I'm 5 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,700 excited to share with you the next in an ongoing series of 6 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:27,100 bonus content drawn from our 2019 imagination, redeemed 7 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:30,400 conference in Colorado Springs. If you like to Attend the 8 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,900 conference next year, you can learn more at Imagination, 9 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:36,100 redeemed.com imagination, redeemed is a gathering of 10 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:40,000 people who long for God's Mysteries to be illuminated more 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,400 clearly on the stage of our world to find his handiwork 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,400 everywhere to see his people filled with the kind of stories 13 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,100 songs and ideas that awaken them to their parts in the great 14 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:54,900 drama. In 2019, we focused our 15 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:58,900 conversation on three acts. The first was corporate worship 16 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:01,800 and sacred art. The second, the life of the 17 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:06,500 church and art created for it. The third, the sacred theater of 18 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:11,200 art for a non-Christian audience in that third act, the Perpetual 19 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,700 rehearsal of God's drama concludes as we bring the gospel 20 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:17,400 to the world. As we take the sacred theater 21 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,800 outside the church into the Fallen World As We Live and 22 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,600 create in the ruins doing full Justice to their darkness. 23 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,600 And to the light, that will swallow it up. 24 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,300 We bring the Divine to the ordinary because there's No, 25 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:33,700 such thing as ordinary. Our speaker for this portion was 26 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:36,900 Junius Johnson. Professor of historical theology 27 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:44,100 at Baylor University My talk today is going to have five 28 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:46,500 parts. There's an overture and then a 29 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:50,300 for movement Symphony, and there are some Tempo markings and 30 00:01:50,308 --> 00:01:53,100 things that will indicate to you as we go into various parts as 31 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:56,300 well. So bear with me over sure. 32 00:01:56,700 --> 00:02:00,800 Like in the ruins My Point of Departure is a famous line 33 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,100 industrious Keys, the idiot Beauty will save the world. 34 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:07,000 What sort of people do? We have to be both to come up 35 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,500 with this thought and to be entranced by it. 36 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:13,400 The answer these questions is to set out on a diagnostic of 37 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,600 culture. First, Let It Be noted that this 38 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,000 notion that beauty will save the world is only compelling for 39 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,300 those who feel that the world is in need of Salvation, it would 40 00:02:22,308 --> 00:02:24,000 be a non-starter for the denizens of Heaven. 41 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,600 Unless it were a world other than their own that were to be 42 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,000 saved. We confess by are very 43 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,600 attraction to this saying that we are whatever else we may be a 44 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,400 people of longing. Briefly, our whole notion of 45 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,000 beauty is founded upon longing. For The Human Experience of 46 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,800 beauty is nothing other than a moment in which a creature we 47 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,900 encounter reminds us of God. It is nostalgia, in the 48 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:52,300 etymological sense, a longing for home and it is possible, 49 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:54,600 even though we have never seen that home because our home is 50 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,600 indelibly, written on our hearts, Children born in Exile, 51 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,000 know that they are Exiles and to the extent that they do not 52 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 reject who they really are the home. 53 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,200 They never knew Burns in their hearts and summons them with 54 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,500 pounding waves of sorrow and yearning. 55 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,700 And so we learned that we are Exiles and the eyes, we lift to 56 00:03:14,708 --> 00:03:17,700 the hills, searching for salvation are red and puffy with 57 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:21,200 crying and weary with staring into the distance straining for 58 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,600 any sign of Hope. But this is only half of the 59 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,200 power of that, quote, the other half stems from mysterious way. 60 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,600 The world Beauty itself affects us. 61 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,100 We hear this word industrious Keys, famous phrase, We Come, 62 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:38,000 perhaps, as close as we ever do to feeling with dependencies, 63 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,500 felt when mr. Beaver, Whispers Aslan is on the 64 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:43,700 move. This means the beauty is no 65 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:47,500 stranger to us. It is Elusive and insufficiently 66 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:51,700 common but we know it and we love it and we want it. 67 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:55,200 And it is really on this point that the entire interpretation 68 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,400 of this passage depends. Let's pass it has often been 69 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,800 understood, especially when taken out of context is usually, 70 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,500 is as a call to aestheticism, who will worship of Art For 71 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:08,900 Art's Sake, if we make and consume beautiful things, we 72 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:12,800 will find Salvation. But this is a domestication of 73 00:04:12,808 --> 00:04:15,700 this passage for by rendering the beautiful something under 74 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:19,500 human control by making it the result of what we can make and a 75 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:23,100 product, we can consume we hide from the Transcendent 76 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:25,600 magnificence that threatens at every moment, to break over our 77 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,000 lives like a mighty wave. But note how this domestication 78 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,200 was accomplished. It is precisely by Shifting. 79 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:36,500 The Thing referred to by the word beauty to something 80 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:38,500 internal to the creaturely world. 81 00:04:38,900 --> 00:04:42,700 The products of our own hands or the creatures we see around us 82 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:46,200 but these are beautiful in a derivative sets. 83 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,100 They are beautiful because they are like God what is really 84 00:04:50,100 --> 00:04:53,700 gripping Us in those moments is the Divine they remind us of 85 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:58,300 This error then does not just domesticate the passage. 86 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:01,700 It also abuses it by turning that which is to be the occasion 87 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:04,700 for worship of God into the object of worship itself. 88 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,600 The beauty that gives our hearts like the name of Aslan is not a 89 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,700 beautiful creature. No one on being first arrested, 90 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:14,400 by this remarkable claim Beauty will save the world thinks that 91 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,300 a beautiful human or a beautiful Symphony will as beautiful, save 92 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:21,100 the world. Nothing that is merely. 93 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:24,600 One thing in this Splendid Cosmos can save it for nothing 94 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,000 in the cosmos is proportioned to the cosmos and power. 95 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:30,600 The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. 96 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,200 No, it is the beauty these things point to a Transcendent 97 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,300 and dangerous beauty that will save the world. 98 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:42,000 The reference another quote from the idiot. 99 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,600 This beauty can turn the world upside down because it made the 100 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,000 world in the first place, it can save the world because it is 101 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 greater than the world. So, let us gather these thoughts 102 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,500 into a coherent image. It is not the case that we fall, 103 00:05:56,500 --> 00:05:58,700 like, in the rolling fields of bliss, stopping to pluck a 104 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:01,500 flower whose subtle beauty is evidence that we live in a world 105 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:05,900 in which all is well rather. This is a dark and foreboding 106 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:10,100 landscape gray with a half light whose Source we cannot discern 107 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,100 the vegetation. What little of it there is is 108 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:18,100 twisted and malformed the air is stale and taste of Ash in decay. 109 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,000 The water is stagnant and like the vegetation while it will 110 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,600 sustain life. It can only be said to nourish 111 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:29,100 it by something like equivocation, we are not alive, 112 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:33,300 we merely exist. From this nightmare landscape 113 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:36,300 rise, the bones of the ruins of magnificent buildings, the 114 00:06:36,308 --> 00:06:41,000 former glory of our people now lost the ravages of time and the 115 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,900 insufficient strength of our own memories. 116 00:06:43,700 --> 00:06:46,700 We can read nothing of this LastPass other than the mournful 117 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:49,100 refrain. We were great once. 118 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:55,200 Judy is a distant light. The sign we have loan for a 119 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,900 first flower of spring, the post an Unbound and undi formed head 120 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:01,400 from the ground. So long believed in capable of 121 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,100 supporting such robust and healthy. 122 00:07:03,100 --> 00:07:08,000 Life is simultaneously long-desired and unhoped-for, 123 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,200 because we dared not dream anything. 124 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,800 So rich could ever truly exist again. 125 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,800 But there's a rub. Something is wrong? 126 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,500 Not with the light that beauty is that we can and do try to 127 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:24,100 shift the wrongness, we feel to displace the McCobb. 128 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:27,600 Dread that oppresses us to that light in order to preserve the 129 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:33,100 deceptions with which we nourish our anguished Half-Life, know we 130 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,200 are what is wrong and this to Right. 131 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:42,500 Light discomforts fills us with nausea and Dread This is not the 132 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:46,500 hope we had hoped for. As the light grows, its 133 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:51,600 intensity becomes a problem. It is too strong, too sharp it. 134 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:56,100 Blinds us and its warmth Burns us and still it goes brighter. 135 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:01,100 Surely this Supernova will ignite the world and cleanse Us 136 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:08,300 by consuming us it is too high a price to pay until we get this 137 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:09,700 right. We will always mistake the 138 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:13,000 beauty that comes as our greatest friend for our greatest 139 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,700 enemy. We won't recognize it in his 140 00:08:15,700 --> 00:08:20,500 humility and so we will withhold our Allegiance and if we fail to 141 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:23,200 recognize it in its humility, we will not love it when it has 142 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:27,300 grown to its full Glory, but we will have only practiced loading 143 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:30,700 it at that point. No Rehabilitation is possible. 144 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,700 We are unsuited for the light and so we must go into the 145 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:37,799 darkness. Well, I suppose that you 146 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:41,100 recognize the story, The Light first shines and utmost, 147 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:44,300 obscurity and secrecy. It is a word spoken by an Angel 148 00:08:44,300 --> 00:08:46,800 to a teenage girl, in a country of no consequence on the 149 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,500 backside of the world. As it grows, the true lovers of 150 00:08:50,508 --> 00:08:54,700 beauty reveal themselves coming, one by one to Adorn it John the 151 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:57,700 Baptist still in the womb Simeon, the prophet and on the 152 00:08:57,700 --> 00:09:03,000 prophet and then in groups the 12, the 500 and then in masses, 153 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,600 but none of them know how the world was to be saved. 154 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:09,700 So none of them recognized in the darkness of the cross. 155 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,800 The silence between the tuning of the orchestra and the first 156 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,300 magnificent notes of the symphony, no one knew they had 157 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:19,300 been listening to an overture. Till it was over. 158 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:24,700 A Christian like the artist does not create this beauty in the 159 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:27,300 world, she only Bears witness to it. 160 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:31,000 She looks like a fool through the long years when the light 161 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,300 has not yet emerged or in the shadows of the ruins from which 162 00:09:34,300 --> 00:09:37,500 the light cannot be seen. When standing in the direct 163 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:39,600 illumination of the light she is odious. 164 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:43,100 A traitor, she has cited against her own people with the invading 165 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:46,800 power that would destroy us. All When she extends a hand, to 166 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,700 raise the lowly, when she weeps with the mourners, when she 167 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:52,800 visits the sick and buries the dead, when she continues these 168 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,300 duties, even while the same plague that killed those, she 169 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:59,600 buries ravages her own skin. She is an enigma and the 170 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,000 perplexity. One thing, she must not be 171 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,000 silent when then she cannot be is ignored. 172 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:11,100 She of the previous paragraph is in the first instance, the 173 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:13,300 Christian. But in the second instance, it 174 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:16,700 is also the artist who has the courage to look beyond what is 175 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:20,300 acceptable to Brave that harsh glare of the light of beauty and 176 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:22,800 bring back some kernels of Truth. 177 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,300 The artist to is something of a profit and cameos that have 178 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:29,300 Dostoevsky that he'd not Mars was the true prophet of the 19th 179 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:32,800 century. Our task is to reconcile these 180 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,600 two figures, the Christian and the artists but also to 181 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,500 determine what to make of their Collision in the world outside. 182 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:44,200 Side of the Holy Cloister of the community of Salvation first 183 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,200 movement that goes in Whispers, Allegro con Brio. 184 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:53,000 Theme conception the moment of Mystery. 185 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,900 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. 186 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,000 We are not told how that first coming forth from nothing. 187 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,100 The moment, when for the first time, it becomes true that 188 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:06,600 something besides God is lies outside, our chain of 189 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:11,000 explanation, but we do know this, the earth created in that 190 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,200 moment was both formless and void. 191 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,400 That is to say it lacks definition shape and it like 192 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,500 content, these two words form and content were destined to 193 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:22,700 become Staples of the philosophy of Art. 194 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,900 And while there is a tendency to identify art with form, that is 195 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:29,100 to say with a meaningful arrangement of elements. 196 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:32,200 Every artist knows that the idea that art can be separated from 197 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,900 the question of content is an artless fiction. 198 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:39,500 It matters what you depict to such an extent that the form 199 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:44,200 must bow in some particulars to that which is depicted even when 200 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,700 a brilliant artist finds a way to pair of form with content 201 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:49,500 that at first seems inimical to it, this must be According to 202 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:53,000 some principle implicit or explicit but discernible that 203 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,800 can mediate between form and content. 204 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:59,500 If the result is to be judged to be art, And so, Genesis 1:1 is 205 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:01,900 not the Exemplar of artistic creation. 206 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:04,900 It is, but the stretching of the canvas over the frame. 207 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:11,100 But in verse 3, the unexpected happens, God speaks perhaps for 208 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:14,400 the first time, and this speech is the exemplary moment of 209 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,800 artistic creation for by means of this speech. 210 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,400 God begins to form the world and is to say to give it form. 211 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:24,100 But speech is theologians going back to at least Augustine have 212 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:27,400 reminded us and externalization of an internal. 213 00:12:29,500 --> 00:12:33,100 This is the Exemplar of all artistic creation, the artist 214 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:36,100 conceives in the mind and then what is conceived is 215 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:38,600 externalized. The end result of this 216 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,400 externalization is the art. This is because all human making 217 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,700 is in the image of divine making, we do what we have been 218 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:50,400 made to do and we do what we see our father doing analogous to 219 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,900 divide making, then human making begins with conception in the 220 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:57,900 soul of the artist. A conception of any sort is a 221 00:12:57,900 --> 00:13:00,900 great mystery, a Wonder. We can never fully explained. 222 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,100 We may, for instance, understand something of the biology of 223 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:06,600 human conception. But the fact that such a thing 224 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,100 should be possible. That all the two individuals 225 00:13:09,100 --> 00:13:12,000 could come together in just this way to produce another 226 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,900 individual. This lies outside the realm of 227 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:17,700 scientific explanation precisely, because it is not a 228 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:22,200 question of fact, but a question of meaning One who fails to 229 00:13:22,208 --> 00:13:25,200 Marvel before this mystery has succumbed to the temptation to 230 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,800 believe. That information is knowledge. 231 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:33,000 And that facts are truth. In artistic conception because 232 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,600 the antecedent causes are even more opaque to us. 233 00:13:35,900 --> 00:13:39,200 We are before the deepest mystery for here. 234 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,100 Above all do we imitate the creative act of the God who 235 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:45,600 calls things that are not into existence. 236 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:51,300 Artistic creation is ex nihilo, not in an absolute sense, but in 237 00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:54,600 an analogous and therefore, real and important sense. 238 00:13:56,900 --> 00:13:59,700 But note that Genesis 13 is the exemplary moment of artistic 239 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:02,100 creation. And even though it is NEX knee, 240 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:04,900 hello for God, doesn't make light out of anything. 241 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:08,800 Nevertheless it is preceded by something my context. 242 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:12,100 I spoke earlier of God, stretching the canvas in verses 243 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:15,600 12 and it is this canvas. There's the context from the art 244 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,300 of God that is to follow. It is also this canvas the 245 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:23,100 created our that is the context for the humid artists only now 246 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:26,400 that canvas has been filled with Wonders, by the Divine hand. 247 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,500 The artist is placed in the world and this world feels her 248 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:35,700 senses and echoes in her soul. But an echo is an echo of 249 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:38,900 something and we are in a position to indicate, what that 250 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:43,500 something is, it is the very speech of God in creation, which 251 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:47,200 itself describes the very being of God In terms that are not 252 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,300 God. Thus, the artist's soul is 253 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:53,900 filled with Whispers And Echoes of the Divine being glory and 254 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:56,800 beauty. And it is out of this, overflow 255 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:00,800 of the heart Wells up to Artistic conception, it is only 256 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,500 because creation is full of the speech. 257 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:06,100 And glory of God, that the soul of the artist is fruitful 258 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:13,500 Development externalization. Wordsworth famously said, in the 259 00:15:13,508 --> 00:15:16,200 preface to lyrical ballads, The Poetry is the spontaneous 260 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:22,000 overflow of powerful feelings. This is, of course, false, but 261 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,500 it has captured the imagination of so many generations of poets 262 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:27,100 and lovers of poetry because it Ted does touch upon something 263 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:28,700 that Rings true. With the experience of the 264 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:32,200 artist that the work of art. Once conceived in the soul, 265 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,700 cannot be contained. There it is like a fire shut up 266 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:38,800 in one's bones, it must be released into the world. 267 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,500 Indeed, there is no art until the concept has been 268 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:45,600 externalized. The concept in the sold is the 269 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:49,100 plan of the art but it is mere form, without matter until it 270 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:52,000 has been realized in the world of extra mental reality. 271 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:57,800 The soul must have a body It is here that the artistic struggle 272 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:02,500 unfolds, as inherent talent, and long years of training labor to 273 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:05,700 bring into existence, what has been conceived a labor that 274 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:09,200 always falls short in important ways and that nevertheless can 275 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,400 manage to produce something that astonishes and for, all of its 276 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:18,700 shortcomings is also so, right. The concept drives at 277 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:21,900 externalization because it was always meant to be brought to 278 00:16:21,908 --> 00:16:24,700 the public. It must out. 279 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,500 It must be offered for inspection and assimilation. 280 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,900 For once externalize, I may stand before it and in that 281 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:35,800 moment, I am not safe. My life values and beliefs are 282 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,400 on the line. In this moment of aesthetic 283 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,500 appreciation. I am asked to understand what 284 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:43,900 the artist understood and there is the possibility that should I 285 00:16:43,900 --> 00:16:47,300 catch even a glimpse of that. That my life will never be the 286 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:50,400 same. The making of heart is an 287 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:56,100 intimate and Powerful. Concourse between Souls this 288 00:16:56,100 --> 00:16:58,500 complements, the previous reflection on the fact that 289 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:00,300 human creative agency is grounded. 290 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:04,500 In the Divine Act of Creation in that Transcendent frame, the 291 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:07,000 artist creates because God's very Beauty. 292 00:17:07,099 --> 00:17:10,300 And the images of that beauty that creatures are whisper and 293 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:13,400 echo in the artist's Soul giving rise to new creative 294 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,700 conceptions. In the imminent frame, the 295 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:19,599 artist creates because the beauty conceived in the soul is 296 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:23,200 of such a sort that it must out analytic to. 297 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,700 It's very power is the need to be expressed because it is a 298 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:30,100 beauty that is pointed at existence outside of the Mind as 299 00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:34,500 its own true mode. Not to create would be to 300 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:37,600 transgress the concept to fail to respect. 301 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,900 The demanded is placed on you just by virtue of being the one 302 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:44,400 to think of it. As artists it is your idea, but 303 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:48,700 it does not belong to you alone, it was given to you to give to 304 00:17:48,700 --> 00:17:51,700 others. Second movement. 305 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:57,300 Indelible logging March of food a day Adagio acai? 306 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:03,300 What is just been this court discussed is true of all artists 307 00:18:03,300 --> 00:18:06,000 regardless of the extent to which there has been an explicit 308 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,800 turning of the Soul towards. Not just the presence of a light 309 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,700 but to its meaning and this is something of a scandal to some 310 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:15,700 who feel that we who do not just see the light but are also of 311 00:18:15,700 --> 00:18:19,100 the light ought to have the upper hand in our ability to 312 00:18:19,100 --> 00:18:22,900 express it and witness to it such as these May. 313 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:25,200 No doubt allowed to a non believing artists whom I shall 314 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,000 henceforth referred to as an artist of Babylon or Babylonian 315 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,300 artist. The exalted privilege of saying 316 00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:32,200 truth. Things about that light but they 317 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,200 find it intellectually troubling to think that an artist, a 318 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,700 Babylon, could speak the specific truths of the faith 319 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:42,700 better than a Christian artist. But how could it be otherwise 320 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:45,500 when we are speaking of the Lord who causes his rain to fall on 321 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:48,500 the just and the unjust? Who berates the Wayward Prophet 322 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:51,800 with the word of a donkey who makes even Cyrus of Babylon? 323 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:56,100 His Messiah for a Time. We see time and again in both 324 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:59,000 Testaments at the word of the Lord goes out into all the Earth 325 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:02,200 and we know that that word does not return void. 326 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,900 And yet, we must go deeper than this. 327 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:10,300 It is not only the case that the artist of Babylon can penetrate 328 00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:13,900 as far as the Christian artist. He is indeed capable of saying 329 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:17,500 more than the Christian artist. This is because the Babylonian 330 00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:20,700 artists, he's in a fundamentally different way than the Christian 331 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:22,800 artist. And so when he penetrates to the 332 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,600 truth in appears differently to him without thereby appearing 333 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:31,500 falsely and so are the same object is seen, what is seen is 334 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:35,900 not the same for the aspect that that light shows to us observers 335 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,300 varies greatly between its admirers and is despisers. 336 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,900 It is here. I think that we must pause, but 337 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:46,000 while the Babylonian artist gazes upon and witnesses to the 338 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,100 light, he is also in flight from that light. 339 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:54,600 This the artist knows in his soul, even when he denies it 340 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,300 publicly and privately the self-deception fails. 341 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:01,400 And at the last day, when that light has been fully revealed, 342 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,500 you will hear him confess. Just this, that he knew the 343 00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:08,300 light and hated it, even while he loved it and therefore, that 344 00:20:08,300 --> 00:20:11,400 he read from it, but was always looking over his shoulder 345 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,100 because he could not stand not to gaze upon it. 346 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,800 This Relentless pursuit in which the pursued cannot escape and 347 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,300 indeed both launched two and long as not to escape, I would 348 00:20:23,300 --> 00:20:28,700 describe as a haunting. Haunting requires presence. 349 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,400 If nothing whatsoever is present in the house is not haunted. 350 00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:35,700 And yet haunting also requires that this presents be of a 351 00:20:35,708 --> 00:20:39,300 specific mode. I am not said to haunt my house, 352 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:41,200 except in a non-literal, poetic sense. 353 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:47,000 Haunting basis itself upon absence insofar as the hunter 354 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,800 has been punitively removed and certainly does not remain in its 355 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,200 fullest form. And yet does for all of that 356 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:58,500 abide, there is dense something unnatural about hunting for what 357 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:01,600 ought to be present is present but in a diminished mode that 358 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,500 often increases rather than diminishes that realities power. 359 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,800 The bodily presence of my friend is much less effective than the 360 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,500 haunting presence. This is where the auditor 361 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:15,300 Babylon finds himself. The inspiring spirit that 362 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:18,900 engenders conception in the artist's, soul is a hostile 363 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:22,000 Spirit and the strictly etymological sense. 364 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:27,000 It is an enemy Spirit, not because it as yet holds any 365 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,600 animosity to the Babylonian artists soul, but because that 366 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:35,000 Soul has made an enemy of it and its own animosity, but make no 367 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,200 mistake. Should the soul persist? 368 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,300 It will find it has made a real enemy of the spirit. 369 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:45,500 Babylonian artist is, as I have just indicated pursued and his 370 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:49,500 art not only reflects this Pursuit, but is itself part of 371 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:53,200 the pursuit indeed. It is the Chief Cornerstone of 372 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,700 the assault. Thus, for the Babylonian artist, 373 00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:00,300 The Whispers And echoes in the soul that are the ground of the 374 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:01,900 first conception of the work of art. 375 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,200 Take out a Sinister sound. They are at times ominous. 376 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,600 Infuriating. Terrifying, unnerving. 377 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:15,200 At best, when it is the image of God, that Echoes In The Soul, a 378 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,200 sense of the Macabre is, never far away. 379 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:21,500 I worse when it is God himself, the danger is of gothis. 380 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:23,800 Is mmm, who knows? But that a massive? 381 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,600 Hell might not drop from the sky or a statue. 382 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,400 Come calling for dinner to drag one down to Hell. 383 00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:34,200 Now, there is a lighter side to haunt it. 384 00:22:34,900 --> 00:22:37,300 Surely the spirit of her beloved departed is welcome in this 385 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:40,400 house her warmth that her scent, maybe God. 386 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:44,400 But yet the way she conditions a room by her, very presence, May 387 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,300 linger. Should she continue as a 388 00:22:46,300 --> 00:22:48,500 haunting? This is surely to be desired. 389 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:52,400 Yes, but even our Pleasant ghost stories are never far from a 390 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,600 terrible turn. The living and the dead do not 391 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,400 live easily together for the one is a challenge to the other. 392 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,500 There is nothing natural about haunting just as there is 393 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:07,500 nothing natural about death, neither ought to be haunting is 394 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:12,900 of its nature liminal and therefore transitory it is no 395 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:15,800 path to Eternity. However, cheap or expensive 396 00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:21,000 would be held to be My jewelry major. 397 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,000 Let us know, bring this explicitly back to the beauty of 398 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,500 God is witness to, in the Babylonians art first. 399 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:30,500 Let it be said that any lingering discomfort, we have 400 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:33,000 with the profundity of expression in the majesty and 401 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,500 mystery of God. President such art needs to be 402 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:38,200 recognized as a failure to get the nature of God, right? 403 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:41,700 God is trying to save as many as possible. 404 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:45,600 And that means extravagant Grace, both common Grace and the 405 00:23:45,608 --> 00:23:49,100 grace of Salvation. There is a wideness to God's 406 00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:53,700 mercy and whatever else art is. It is divine mercy. 407 00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:58,300 And let's go further. The specific charism of 408 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:02,600 Babylonian art is to reveal the face of the Lord of Mercy as it 409 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,300 appears to those who have not found favour through the grace 410 00:24:05,300 --> 00:24:08,400 of his son. Three moments, I'd like to 411 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,200 consider here. First, this means the ability to 412 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,100 ask questions, more urgently, I think here of Andrew Lloyd 413 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:17,100 Webber's, Jesus Christ, Superstar, which obsessively, 414 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:20,500 ask the question, who is Jesus, each character? 415 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:23,400 Who asked this question? Mary Magdalene, Simon the Zealot 416 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:28,000 herot pilot and most hauntingly Judas in their questioning in 417 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,300 perplexity. They cannot decisively answer 418 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:34,300 the question about Jesus identity because the composer 419 00:24:34,300 --> 00:24:38,100 and Lyricist themselves cannot answer this question and so they 420 00:24:38,100 --> 00:24:39,600 have no answer to put into the music. 421 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:44,200 But what they do have, is an experience of how urgent this 422 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,200 question can be, they know the desperation of sensing that it 423 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,100 is just possible that everything hinges on a question to, which 424 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:54,700 they are not willing to give an affirmative answer, but to, 425 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:57,100 which they are also not prepared to give a negative answer. 426 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:01,600 If the question of Jesus did not haunt their souls, they could 427 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,600 not have written the show. The question, who is Jesus would 428 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,300 be too uninteresting to be fruitful because simply answered 429 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:13,300 as just another man. But what they wrote doesn't just 430 00:25:13,300 --> 00:25:15,700 witness to the power and compelling Us in the person of 431 00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:17,900 Christ. It does do that and also 432 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:20,900 expresses an urgency that is not foreign to the people who bear 433 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,000 his name. To be a Christian is to have 434 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000 faced the same question. We may have answered it given 435 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,100 into the Event Horizon of his singular, indecisive excellence. 436 00:25:32,300 --> 00:25:36,000 But at one point was not. So every Christian begins as a 437 00:25:36,008 --> 00:25:39,900 Babylonian, so the Babylonian artist helps to reveal our own 438 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:42,900 past and illumines our current condition. 439 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Secondly, the charism of the Babylonian artist also has to 440 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,800 consider finality for God's spirit will not continue 441 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,000 forever. With humans. 442 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,000 Christ is believed to be the coming judge. 443 00:25:57,100 --> 00:25:59,700 God's mercy may be wide but it still marks off a path. 444 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:02,400 It is so far from including every path that it is called 445 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,400 narrow by the savior. The Babylonian artist who stands 446 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,400 under threat of judgment and final rejection who course 447 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,200 Disaster by rushing headlong towards the throne of grace. 448 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,800 As an enemy of Grace, is able to depict the Tripper inducing 449 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,100 Majesty of the king in a way that the Christian as Christian 450 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,200 cannot. But when I look under severe 451 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,600 face of God, I know that it is. Not the last expression, I will 452 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,600 see on that Most Blessed face, a Babylonian knows in his soul, in 453 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,500 that same place where art is conceived, that he is the object 454 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:40,900 of the terrible displeasure. He sees there, Third. 455 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:43,300 And finally, it also very importantly, the Babylonian has 456 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:47,700 something to say about Hope. At the Christian does not for 457 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:50,800 the Christian. Hope is an anchor for the soul. 458 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,400 A promise, whose fulfillment is sure. 459 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,900 However, delayed it may be But the Babylonian hopes 460 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,300 groundlessly. What I mean is not that his hope 461 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:04,000 has no ground for it is. In fact grounded in the same 462 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,900 place is Our Hope in the God who makes a way, but because the 463 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:11,700 Babylonian resists, or even denies this ground, his hope is 464 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:16,300 not set upon it by detached. And the Babylonian Soul 465 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:19,500 recognizes the precarious nature of this free-floating hope. 466 00:27:20,300 --> 00:27:23,400 And in that recognition knows itself to be in Mortal peril. 467 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,400 And yet, and this is what we can learn so much from The Hope. 468 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,000 Abides. Babylonian hope is always in the 469 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,000 process of Disappearing, but as expressed in art, it never, in 470 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,100 fact, disappears. The Artist May Despair and 471 00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:42,900 despair is to lack. Hope day Sparrow to be away from 472 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:46,900 home, and the artistic expression of this may be on the 473 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:50,500 road to suicide. But the art itself, always 474 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:53,800 contains something of Hope because it is itself, an 475 00:27:53,808 --> 00:27:58,000 expression of hope it is. Minimally The Last Cry for 476 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,000 understanding of the anguished soul. 477 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,400 I no longer believe, there's anything worth fighting for. 478 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,500 And yet I leave you this art by Testaments as evidence of my 479 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:09,800 struggle. Evidence. 480 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,500 Yes. And more than evidence it is 481 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:16,300 also itself, giving meaning to the struggle. 482 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,600 And so does most extreme at the very point when hope does indeed 483 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,300 vanish. Abandon every hope ye who enter 484 00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:27,600 here. We see a witness to the good of 485 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:32,000 that hope to its power and a plea that this hope not be 486 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,100 groundless that it all not have been meaningless or in vain this 487 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:38,200 is image. Beautifully is like 488 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,100 Tchaikovsky's Symphony begins in darkness and reaches for the 489 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:46,500 light for every modality frantic gentle triumphant timid. 490 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,100 It is where it began in the same Darkness, but worse Britt has 491 00:28:51,100 --> 00:28:55,000 found that none of its tactics have grasped the light and so it 492 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,600 ends in despair the lingering dying. 493 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,300 No, to the basis is an image and a cry of dereliction. 494 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:06,700 The relinquishing of Hope. And indeed of life And yet The 495 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:09,400 Listener is not often, I think convicted at the end of the 496 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,800 symphony that there is no hope and that life is to be 497 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,100 relinquished. Whatever may have been following 498 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:18,100 the composer a few short days later instead we come away so 499 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:23,300 bird but with the flame of Hope lit within the hope we have 500 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:26,100 glimpsed there that the artist reaches after and ultimately 501 00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:31,500 turns away from draws us on cause us to seek it may even 502 00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:35,700 reinvigorate our search. You know, what? 503 00:29:35,700 --> 00:29:39,900 A minor key. A major objection of risers to 504 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:42,200 all of. This are not these elements 505 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,100 present also in the work of Christian artists How can I draw 506 00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:49,100 such a neat delineation between the Christian artist and the 507 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:53,800 Babylonian quite simply, I do not know such neat division 508 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,900 exists. Then how is there any meaning to 509 00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:59,500 the distinctions? I've been making precisely for 510 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:02,700 this reason. Every Christian artists not only 511 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:08,800 begins as a Babylonian artist but also remains one I mean, 512 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,000 this in two senses in the first sense, I mean, what I said 513 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,600 earlier that every human is born in Babylon and only becomes a 514 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,500 citizen of the New Jerusalem, subsequently there for the songs 515 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:23,700 and Babylon, are our songs and those experiences are not just 516 00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:28,200 those of our fellow humans, but are our very own But I also mean 517 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,800 it in a present sense, for we have not left Babylon, we have 518 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,300 only been called out of her, indeed, it is best to say that 519 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:39,200 we are being called out of her. Whatever progress we may have 520 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,000 made away from the city of mud. We have not completed the 521 00:30:42,008 --> 00:30:46,400 journey, and so, I write both as an ambassador of the New Kingdom 522 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,400 and as nurturing and in completely severed, allegiance 523 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:56,100 to the Old Kingdom, And here there is a mandate the Christian 524 00:30:56,100 --> 00:30:59,300 can and should draw on the experience of Babylon. 525 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000 But her commitment is with the New Jerusalem. 526 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,200 This means that we may dip into the urgency of not knowing who 527 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,700 God is the terror of being rejected by Beauty itself and 528 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:13,000 the doubt that hope can at all have any meaningful sense. 529 00:31:13,300 --> 00:31:15,600 But we cannot abide in these places. 530 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:19,600 The artist aims at faithful externalization. 531 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,500 And so witnesses to the light, the Christian artist must 532 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:25,400 therefore reach the part of her soul. 533 00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:29,500 Where such witness is most true because most in accord, with the 534 00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:37,600 light of Truth, They drove it in dwelling and imitation, Allegro 535 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,700 Vivace. Scherzo indwelling the temple, 536 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:47,800 receive ye the Holy Spirit. In creating God, created a space 537 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,400 outside of himself from which he nevertheless would not be 538 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,600 absent. The cosmos was not flowing into 539 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:54,900 existence. It was placed. 540 00:31:55,700 --> 00:31:58,200 And the First Act, we see God, doing after creation is 541 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,600 completed a completion that includes Sabbath Rest. 542 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,700 By the way, is to walk in the garden that he has made to 543 00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:08,500 Delight in the diurnal. Rhythm of this world. 544 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,800 Enjoy the cool of the day. Got interesting to Creation in 545 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,000 his first moments because he's made a place where he Wills to 546 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,900 be present. Likewise Christ enters into 547 00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:23,100 creation at the Incarnation and in a more intimate way. 548 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,000 But what do I mean when I say the creation is outside of God, 549 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,800 except that it is external to his personal identities. 550 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:34,500 But in Incarnation, that is no longer true for now, one who is 551 00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:36,700 personally, God, is also a creature. 552 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,200 And so, a part of creation and we must not miss that. 553 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:46,300 The insurance is also, by means of a conception, the most 554 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:51,500 singular and wonderful conception there is The entrance 555 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:53,300 of God into Creation in this way. 556 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:59,500 Changes, everything. yet once more God enters into Creation, 557 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:02,300 in a special way this time in the person of the Holy Spirit 558 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:06,500 when he comes to indwell believers, it is this entry that 559 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:09,500 is of greatest interest here. The interests of the Holy Spirit 560 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:12,200 Into the Heart of the individual believer may be called a 561 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,400 conception. It is known as mysterious as his 562 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,400 witness by the fact that we can give no account of it. 563 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,100 What is the mode of presence of this Divine person in us? 564 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,200 We can only call it personal and idea of which we have an 565 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,600 implicit understanding that we cannot ultimately explicate but 566 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,500 there's more the Holy Spirit by virtue of his name is linked 567 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:38,000 with that quality. God, that grounds empowers and 568 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,200 surrounds our worship. Namely the beauty of holiness. 569 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,400 Indeed, as very God, the holy spirit is the Eternal beauty of 570 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,500 which all creaturely beauty is the beautiful. 571 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:52,000 Reminder. What occurs? 572 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,300 Then when the spirit comes to enjoying a Christian, is the 573 00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:57,100 beauty is conceived in the soul of that. 574 00:33:57,100 --> 00:34:01,900 Christian not indeed the beauty of artistic conception, but that 575 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:05,900 beauty to which artistic conception Witnesses and so, 576 00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:08,699 there is an analogy between what happens when the soul receives 577 00:34:08,699 --> 00:34:11,199 the Holy Spirit and what happens, when the soul of the 578 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:17,100 artist conceives, a work of art Like the conception of a work of 579 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:19,199 art is entrance of the holy spirit is personal. 580 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:23,000 That is to say individual, the Holy Spirit indwells each 581 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,500 Christian in a way that is particular and that as such is 582 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:29,199 unique. I may call it mine. 583 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,000 But as with the work of art entrusted to me, it is mined in 584 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,900 a sense quite other than the exclusive Mastery, we usually 585 00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:38,199 associated with ownership. This possession is neither 586 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:41,500 exclusive nor mastering. And in fact, we would do well, 587 00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:44,400 to say that it is mine, not because it belongs to me. 588 00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:48,100 But because I belong to S and here we move in the direction of 589 00:34:48,107 --> 00:34:51,400 the song of songs, I am my beloved and my beloved is mine. 590 00:34:53,699 --> 00:34:55,800 This leads directly to the next point of likeness. 591 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:58,300 For like the artistic conception, the Holy Spirit 592 00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:02,100 conceived in my heart is not meant for me alone, but for me 593 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:05,500 to bring to others. This is true in the salvific 594 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:08,300 economy of God, but we are called to Bear witness to the 595 00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:11,100 goodness of the Lord. Let the redeemed of the Lord say 596 00:35:11,100 --> 00:35:15,400 so, And what greater goodness. Have we seen that impersonal 597 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:20,400 indwelling But this is also true in the created order where it is 598 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,100 easily. Imagine that the God who spoke 599 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:24,500 personally with Adam and Eve would also speak personally with 600 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,100 Cain and Abel. Seth, and so on Down the Line, 601 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,200 had we not sent but then those encounters would give Seth 602 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,700 something to share with me about God, that lay outside of my own 603 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:36,700 experience. Seth's encounters with God, 604 00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:39,400 would be private in the sense that they were unique to him, 605 00:35:39,900 --> 00:35:42,200 but not in the sense that they were closed off to others. 606 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,600 Rather my access to them would be through his recounting of 607 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,600 them, his telling me of the ways, he personally had seen the 608 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:55,100 goodness of the Lord. And thus this is to be restored 609 00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:59,500 eschatologically at the end of all things for each Christian 610 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:03,000 Bears, a name written on a white stone, that none knows. 611 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:08,200 But God and the one to whom it is given Revelation 2:17, there 612 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,400 is a secret that each state has with God. 613 00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:14,000 That is the grounds of a unique praise. 614 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,400 We each have to offer God, but that is also a private 615 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,400 experience out of which we will enrich others. 616 00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:24,800 Well, as you listen to my song of Praise, You Will Marvel at it 617 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,900 and at the relationship out of which it arises for. 618 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:31,500 It is so different to your own. And yet harmonious and 619 00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:34,700 complementary indeed, how can this not be? 620 00:36:34,700 --> 00:36:38,600 So if the martyrs will wear on their bodies, the marks of their 621 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:43,200 martyrdom, as crowns of Glory. The story of the things we 622 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,200 suffer for his name. Sake will be written Upon Our 623 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,500 glorified bodies and will constitute an art vegetable by 624 00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:54,000 all the redeemed. Let's recapitulate this theme 625 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,700 once. More before moving on, for there 626 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:58,200 is another important internalization of a Divine 627 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,300 person, the life of Faith. Namely, the faithful reception 628 00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:05,100 of Christ in the Eucharist. Eucharist nourishes. 629 00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:09,200 Holy Spirit indwelling, according to its two modes, as a 630 00:37:09,207 --> 00:37:12,500 memorial of Christ's death, Eucharist in Flames, us with 631 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:15,500 love for the one who has done these things and gratitude for 632 00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:19,900 the things done. And so, softens our hearts The 633 00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:23,400 softening of the heart, makes the spirits work of recreation. 634 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,300 Sanctification easier. It makes the heart of more 635 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:29,200 suitable, dwelling place for the spirit because the heart has 636 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,600 become more malleable to this work of recreation and 637 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:37,700 sanctification. And as the very presence of the 638 00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:41,800 whole Christ, in the Eucharist, we are transformed by direct 639 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:46,100 personal encounter with the one who is our Exemplar in the 640 00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:49,200 direction of the true image of that image, we were always meant 641 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,200 to be Eucharist changes us more into Christ and in so doing 642 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,700 makes us more truly Who We Are. He is fire and we are lesser 643 00:37:57,700 --> 00:38:01,600 fires kindled from him sin, weakens our Flames to, We Are by 644 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,000 smoldering coals. But when the original Blaze 645 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,000 draws near our own flame leaps up in response, renewed, by this 646 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,300 transfer of heat, the real presence of Christ in the 647 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:16,500 Eucharist transforms, our very being The point of the last 648 00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:19,000 section is to underscore that the conception by which the Holy 649 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,200 Spirit comes to dwell in a Believer is not just analogous 650 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:24,400 to the conception of a work of art in the sense that both our 651 00:38:24,408 --> 00:38:28,900 conceptions but also because both conceptions a mat 652 00:38:28,900 --> 00:38:33,600 externalization that is indeed true of all conception insofar, 653 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,900 as we ground, our understanding of the word conception and our 654 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:39,100 use of it to cover biological conception, what is conceived 655 00:38:39,100 --> 00:38:40,300 in? The room is meant to go forth 656 00:38:40,300 --> 00:38:44,200 from the room and into the world, as with artistic 657 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,400 conception In the case of the indwelling of the holy spirit, 658 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,200 externalization is necessary. What has come to dwell in? 659 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,300 You must be brought forth for public view. 660 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,900 It must be offered to another, that the other may have a chance 661 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:01,400 to see something of what you have seen and having seen it to 662 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:06,000 never be the same again. in short, the externalization of 663 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,400 the indwelling of the holy spirit that which is analogous 664 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:15,300 to the creation of the work of art is Witness and so, when I 665 00:39:15,308 --> 00:39:19,200 say that a Christians witness is her art, What I mean in the 666 00:39:19,207 --> 00:39:22,700 first instance is not that we have a responsibility to witness 667 00:39:22,700 --> 00:39:26,400 to the truth in our art. But rather that the witness that 668 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,500 we bear to, the hope that has been conceived in US is itself 669 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:35,300 art. If we get this right, we will 670 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:38,100 have no need to obsess about Evangelistic strategies, 671 00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:40,900 cultural relevance and sensitivity or accessibility 672 00:39:41,100 --> 00:39:44,300 because the externalization of internally can see, beauty is 673 00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:48,400 itself, beautiful. The beauty of the art, that is 674 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,600 our witness brings with it. Its own compelling us, its own 675 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,300 self evidence, a compelling, - it never crosses over into 676 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:58,400 compulsion. Beauty is not in need of 677 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,600 apology, because it captures us before we have had a chance to 678 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,000 think about it. All of this, of course, 679 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,500 presupposes that our witness is in fact, beautiful. 680 00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:10,800 And yet, we know from experience and history that this is not 681 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,800 always the case. How then do we ensure a 682 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,400 beautiful Witness? Well, how does the artist 683 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,400 proceed in externalizing? The concept. 684 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,200 The art is judged by the artist to be successful, precisely to 685 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,800 the extent that has faithfully and meaningfully captured. 686 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,500 The Contours of the inner conception. 687 00:40:31,300 --> 00:40:34,300 The outer form is bound to the inner concept. 688 00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:39,500 Or externalization to be truly externalization and not merely 689 00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:43,300 cheap imitation that which is to be externalized, must form a 690 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:47,600 rule that governs. The artistic process Likewise 691 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,500 with witness the form. This of the indwelling spirit, 692 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,900 both its inherent form as the third person of the Trinity and 693 00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:58,400 the form distant drilling takes specific to this particular 694 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,300 Christian must guide. The witness that is offered to 695 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:03,600 it. Violence done. 696 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,500 In the name of the faith, is not a compelling witness because it 697 00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:10,700 is transgress, the form of the indwelling spirit as God, the 698 00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:14,600 spirit compels, no one, but romances running the risk of 699 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,900 ultimate rejection. As God in Me, the spirit, does 700 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:22,600 not compel my transformation but offers powerful and compelling 701 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,200 because beautiful arguments internally towards a more 702 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:30,100 Sanctified me. And we must keep in mind. 703 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,100 That's a production of great art requires the exercise of the 704 00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:34,800 skills involved in making the art. 705 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,100 The Masterpiece is the product not merely of one conception, 706 00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:41,900 and process of making. What if all the making? 707 00:41:41,900 --> 00:41:43,600 The artist has done up to that point. 708 00:41:44,700 --> 00:41:48,500 We must be exercised in the spiritual disciplines in faith 709 00:41:48,500 --> 00:41:52,700 and prayer and meditation on scripture and repentance to be 710 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:54,900 able to paint a compelling Witness. 711 00:41:57,100 --> 00:41:58,900 However, it also follows from what I've said that the 712 00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:01,600 Christian does have a responsibility to witness by her 713 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,100 art. And so, a Christians witness is 714 00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:05,700 her. Art must also be taken in the 715 00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:09,500 sense that this is the case now. Where is this responsibility 716 00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:10,700 grounded? How do I get off saying? 717 00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:12,900 You artists have a responsibility to witness the 718 00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:15,600 truth in your heart? It is grounded in the fact that 719 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,100 the Christian has the personal opportunity and obligation to 720 00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:22,300 refer the beauty conceived as the beginning of the work of art 721 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,100 to the beauty as well as in her soul. 722 00:42:25,100 --> 00:42:27,500 In. So doing she recognizes not just 723 00:42:27,500 --> 00:42:32,400 the what but the Winds of the beauty that will become the art. 724 00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:36,900 Even this is not enough for why? Mushy compare these two beauties 725 00:42:36,900 --> 00:42:39,300 at all? Surely the knowledge of the 726 00:42:39,308 --> 00:42:41,900 Winds is not required for sterilization, for the artist of 727 00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:44,100 Babylon. Does not have or has fooled 728 00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:46,700 himself into thinking. He does not have, it's not much. 729 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,100 But the truth is they crucially beauty is not just from Christ 730 00:42:51,100 --> 00:42:55,200 as its Alpha but also towards Christ as its Omega, the 731 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,800 creature cannot be understood. Well, either as creature or as 732 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,300 beautiful apart from the recognition of the fact that it 733 00:43:02,300 --> 00:43:07,600 exists to refer to another and it's whole Glory lies in the way 734 00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:10,100 unique among all creatures. It does this. 735 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,400 Thus insofar as every artist logs to and has an obligation to 736 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,900 the art to capture as much as possible to the concept in the 737 00:43:18,908 --> 00:43:21,900 external product. The Christian artist must 738 00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:25,100 connect, the beauty of the artistic conception to the 739 00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:26,900 beauty of the Spirit dwelling within her. 740 00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:31,800 But then the externalization that is the Christians art is 741 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,100 always also an externalization of the indwelling spirit. 742 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:40,700 And so also witness your witness is Art in your art is Witness 743 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,700 Fourth Movement. Sacramento, remediation. 744 00:43:47,300 --> 00:43:51,600 Allegro con spirito. IMA behold. 745 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:56,700 I have made all things new. It is time now to speak of the 746 00:43:56,700 --> 00:43:59,600 Salvation of the world pointed to, by Dostoevsky, with which we 747 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,700 began this journey. We need to speak especially of 748 00:44:02,700 --> 00:44:05,200 the means, by which the Salvation will be accomplished. 749 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,900 No worldly power can save the world as I stated at the outset. 750 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,200 It is only the blood of the god, man. 751 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:16,400 Yes, blood inescapably. And without appeal that can save 752 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,700 the world and yet that blood is not poured out, formless lie. 753 00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:24,400 When Christ externalizes, the healing of the Nations that he 754 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,400 has conceived internally, he does this by the pouring out 755 00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:33,300 externalization of his blood inscribing, his death on the 756 00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:37,900 world as his art. this takes visible form, not only in the 757 00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:41,000 cross, but in the cup, He blesses at the beginning of his 758 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,900 passion, world-saving power has been poured out from God into 759 00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:49,700 the sacraments water and blood flowed from his side. 760 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,100 And these sacraments are now also the art of God. 761 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,400 But the truth constituted by these sacraments is also as a 762 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:03,700 whole and in each individual member the arch of God. 763 00:45:04,900 --> 00:45:07,700 We are through Sacramento agency, the increasingly 764 00:45:07,700 --> 00:45:10,600 accurate externalization of God's idea of us. 765 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,400 We only imperfectly resemble it now, but much less imperfectly 766 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:20,000 after Grace than before. If the word of God does not 767 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,500 return void, neither is the art of God to be thought to return 768 00:45:23,500 --> 00:45:25,900 void. Rather it accomplishes. 769 00:45:25,900 --> 00:45:29,600 What it was sent out to do And we have already discussed what 770 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:32,700 work it is that art accomplishes in a scene. 771 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:37,300 And what seen it challenges? And often transforms the viewer. 772 00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:41,100 Let us say, art be makes the world. 773 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,100 Christian's Dan is the art of God, transform the world around 774 00:45:46,100 --> 00:45:48,900 them. We transform it not aimlessly or 775 00:45:48,900 --> 00:45:50,400 after our own image and likeness. 776 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,000 That's the logic of Babylon. But rather into the true image 777 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,300 of the Holiness of God, we do this, in two ways 778 00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,500 epistemologically. That is how the water start of 779 00:46:00,900 --> 00:46:05,700 and ontologically, how the world is histologically. 780 00:46:05,700 --> 00:46:09,800 How it's thought of we transform the world first, in our own 781 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,400 minds, by referring each creature to the divine Simpler. 782 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,200 And so, coming more and more to see the way that all things 783 00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:20,500 image God, and to restore to each creature its ability to 784 00:46:20,500 --> 00:46:25,200 point to God. But we also train the world to 785 00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,200 see itself differently as he creatures differently. 786 00:46:29,100 --> 00:46:32,200 This last we do Above All by your heart, both as artists and 787 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,600 as Witnesses. The take just two examples a 788 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,500 cathedral such as the Majestic and beleaguered. 789 00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:40,500 No speedometer pocket has given Generations or Babylonians. 790 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,800 A sense of a majesty and Transcendence that goes beyond 791 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,700 what their philosophy as categories for. 792 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,600 Just listening to the news, the French news doing interviews 793 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,400 with folks on the street, as the cathedral was burning. 794 00:46:53,700 --> 00:46:57,300 And the things that these very non-Christian Frenchmen were 795 00:46:57,300 --> 00:47:00,000 saying about, what this Cathedral meant to them 796 00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:04,400 indicated that it's not just a national cultural Landmark, it's 797 00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,400 not just the most visited tourist site in Europe. 798 00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:09,800 It is to them as a place where they're reminded of something 799 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,000 more than they really have space to talk about their philosophy. 800 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,600 And for a second example, consider the sacrificial actions 801 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,800 of Christians, which once revolutionized, how Roman looked 802 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:25,800 at children D, commodifying them and restoring to every baby born 803 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:30,800 a chance at life. Ontologically. 804 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,300 We transform the World by restoring broken, things to 805 00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:36,200 their proper state. Principal among things to be 806 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,500 restored or Sinners and it is at the Reformation of life that the 807 00:47:39,500 --> 00:47:43,000 art of Christian witness principally aims, the Call of 808 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,300 Beauty. That our witness sounds to 809 00:47:44,300 --> 00:47:48,900 others is a call of like, to like deep calls to deep. 810 00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,300 The rational creature has a special place in the created 811 00:47:52,300 --> 00:47:56,500 order and God's purposes are, especially urgent with regard to 812 00:47:56,500 --> 00:48:01,400 our race. We also transform places and 813 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,500 objects and this can be seen in the Saints who by the Holiness 814 00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:09,300 of their lives have left behind an experiment in ladder, a 815 00:48:09,300 --> 00:48:12,000 legacy of blessing, the sometimes attaches especially to 816 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,500 places or things. These relics we're lichter have 817 00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:18,800 been especially honored through the senses. 818 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,100 Such things may be said to have been Sanctified by the state in 819 00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:26,300 a broad sense because it is an extension of in continuity with 820 00:48:26,300 --> 00:48:30,100 the Divine work at the Saints. Life is That God works in these 821 00:48:30,100 --> 00:48:33,200 ways. All right of the ministry of a 822 00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:37,400 saint is the work that God does through the ongoing Legacy left 823 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,700 behind This is indeed. The only way in which Christians 824 00:48:40,700 --> 00:48:44,200 can be said to sanctify my participation in the sanctifying 825 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:48,400 work of God, but this participation is real and so 826 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,400 then is the participatory sanctification. 827 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:58,400 Development There Is Power in the Blood witness as martyrdom. 828 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,800 I pointed out earlier that there is no appeal from the blood of 829 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,400 Christ. No matter the problems we may 830 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,300 have with the notion of an innocent dying for the guilty or 831 00:49:08,300 --> 00:49:11,100 with blood is a necessary means to appease the wrath of God 832 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:16,200 these remain our problems. Scripture is unequivocal and the 833 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,500 apostles knew that one could only make sense of the saving 834 00:49:18,500 --> 00:49:20,700 work of Christ and the context of the prescribed Jewish 835 00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:26,500 sacrifices It Is by blood that the world is saved and if Christ 836 00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:29,800 is the Exemplar of all things then in this sinful world, we 837 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,500 have fashioned out of God's perfect one. 838 00:49:31,900 --> 00:49:36,700 Every form of God's art stands under the sign of blood we can 839 00:49:36,700 --> 00:49:39,300 no more transform the world without the spilling of our 840 00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:42,300 blood in the world could be saved apart from the spending of 841 00:49:42,308 --> 00:49:46,800 Christ's blood. As his blood had to flow so must 842 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,700 hours. Surely this is the mystery of 843 00:49:49,700 --> 00:49:51,600 filling up. What is lacking in his suffering 844 00:49:52,300 --> 00:49:54,500 a space remains in the suffering of Christ. 845 00:49:54,500 --> 00:49:57,800 It is only because he has made room for us to join him there. 846 00:49:59,100 --> 00:50:02,500 And so we cannot and must not flinch from the truth proclaimed 847 00:50:02,500 --> 00:50:03,900 already. In the New Testament that 848 00:50:03,900 --> 00:50:07,900 Christian witness is etymologically martyrdom We were 849 00:50:07,900 --> 00:50:10,500 sent to be his Martyrs in all the world. 850 00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:14,800 There is no space to be found between our witness and 851 00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,800 suffering, the to coincide of every moment in a world that 852 00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:23,800 needs Beauty to save it. Our art then which is one form 853 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,800 of that weakness, cannot be true to that witness and descend into 854 00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,800 mere sentimentalism, which I would add is actually a lot 855 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:36,100 harder to do than you think. It cannot be superficial and 856 00:50:36,100 --> 00:50:38,900 fully externalize. The spirit of the crucified who 857 00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:43,100 lives within us. this is the truest form of Sacramento 858 00:50:43,100 --> 00:50:47,200 remediation, but the sacraments only flow from the wounded side 859 00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,100 of Christ and the blood of the Christian Martyrs is the truest 860 00:50:51,100 --> 00:50:54,700 form of imitation of the Christ after whom we long to be Pi, 861 00:50:54,700 --> 00:50:58,600 patterned We sanctify this world and his people is through our 862 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,700 faithfulness in suffering and above all through our 863 00:51:01,700 --> 00:51:05,900 faithfulness unto death. The message of Hope We Carry 864 00:51:05,900 --> 00:51:10,000 will be challenged because it comes to those who know it to be 865 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,600 true and yet have shut their eyes to it. 866 00:51:13,300 --> 00:51:15,600 We have found deep holes in which to hide themselves from 867 00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,300 the Searing, all-consuming demands of the light of life. 868 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,200 In the face of such challenge which grows, increasingly 869 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:27,300 strident, vehement and violence the more it sees us and moved. 870 00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,700 Our greatest defense of the strength of our hope is our 871 00:51:30,700 --> 00:51:36,100 death. The first art of the Christian 872 00:51:36,700 --> 00:51:39,000 is to show the world how to live for Christ. 873 00:51:40,500 --> 00:51:43,700 Her last art is to show the world, how to die for her. 874 00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,800 Christ, introduced from triumphantly in order to suffer. 875 00:51:51,500 --> 00:51:53,500 We do not enter into my unfriendly, except through 876 00:51:53,500 --> 00:51:57,700 suffering. The way is not just narrow, it 877 00:51:57,700 --> 00:52:00,500 is a gauntlet. You said on every side, my sword 878 00:52:00,500 --> 00:52:04,000 and spear fireman water, instruments of torture, and 879 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:08,500 degradation disease, and pestilence rejection and Scorn. 880 00:52:11,100 --> 00:52:14,800 The point of these things is to terrify us out of the way. 881 00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:17,800 Remember, that's what the faith was called originally, as the 882 00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:21,500 way to appeal, to our sense of self-preservation and I love 883 00:52:21,500 --> 00:52:26,100 about my safety, very ones you set these trials before us. 884 00:52:26,100 --> 00:52:29,800 Bulk in a horror when they see as walk steadfastly forward. 885 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,700 Raving, what to them is unthinkable. 886 00:52:34,700 --> 00:52:37,800 We take heart because Christ has overcome the world. 887 00:52:38,500 --> 00:52:42,500 Now it's our turn We March joyfully towards the suffering 888 00:52:42,500 --> 00:52:45,700 because it is our honor to die for the one who died for us. 889 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,100 And because we are back in Don, by The Beauty with which he will 890 00:52:49,100 --> 00:52:52,900 close us, the seven magnificent promises for those who overcome 891 00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:57,500 in Revelation, 2 and 3. And we're back in town by the 892 00:52:57,500 --> 00:53:01,800 beauty that he is. If we walk this path faithfully 893 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:05,900 and transparently, then as the world's weary and watery eyes, 894 00:53:05,900 --> 00:53:09,900 follow our progress, it will eventually lose sight of us and 895 00:53:09,900 --> 00:53:14,100 the radiance to which we walk. Your eyes will be filled with 896 00:53:14,100 --> 00:53:17,800 the glory of God and our art would have brought them to their 897 00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:22,200 lives crisis. It has we cross the vanishing 898 00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:27,400 point and last dying echo of us. They hear me a shout of Joy 899 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:31,400 indistinguishable between Hosanna and marinara. 900 00:53:32,700 --> 00:53:33,000 Thank you.