There is a grandeur in this vision of life,” Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species, expressing his awe at nature’s creation of “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful”. whether in the simple details of everyday life or in the great moral dilemmas of human existence. What is it that is “sacred” about sacred art? For religious believers, the sacred, whether in art or otherwise, is clearly that which is associated with the holy and the divine. Not so much as an expression of the divine but, paradoxically perhaps, more an exploration of what it means to be human; what it is to be human not in the here and now, not in our immediacy, nor merely in our physicality, but in a more transcendental sense. The sacred order has never ceased, implicitly or explicitly, to proclaim ‘this is how things are, they cannot be otherwise’.” In Christian theology, the actual centre of the universe is not the earth, but hell. Kenan Malik says that the history of Christianity tells a story of how they came to think of themselves as beings who could shape the world.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:10:36 +0000
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