Beauty In The Bible

These seven essays offer fresh perspectives on beauty’s role in revelation. Each essay features a hermeneutical approach informed by the contemporary study of aesthetics. Covering a series of texts in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, from Adam and Eve in the garden to Jesus on trial in the Fourth Gospel, the authors engage beauty from three overarching perspectives: modern philosophy, contextual criticism, and the postcritical return to beauty’s primary qualities. The three perspectives are not harmonized but rather explored concurrently to create a volume with intriguing methodological tensions. As this collection highlights beauty in the narratives of scripture, it opens readers to a largely unexplored dimension of the Bible. The contributors are Richard J. Bautch, Jo-Ann A. Brant, Mark Brummitt, David Penchansky, Antonio Portalatín, Jean-François Racine, and Peter Spitaler.

Discover how to take beautiful care of your skin, apply makeup like a pro, and look your absolute best without spending a fortune. The complete beauty bible will guide you through all the latest research and current information about every imaginable cosmetic innovation.

Shares tips and techniques for using makeup to camoflauge flaws and highlight personal beauty with instructions for everyday and special occasions.

Are you a bride on a mission to look more glamorous than ever before on your wedding day? The Bridal Beauty Bible is your go-to guide for skin and makeup advice and the secrets no one else will tell you - written by a former bride herself. Using the same sass and brutal honesty that only Broke B*tch Thrift can provide - this is your unfiltered handbook to killin' it from the moment you get engaged, until the moment you say "I do".

Every woman can accentuate her God-given beauty using the hidden treasures of the ancient Scriptures. Ginger Garrett reveals how every woman can accent her God-given beauty using the hidden treasures of the ancient Scriptures-where every scent and every act of beautification had spiritual and emotional significance. A woman's longing to present herself as physically beautiful is universal. Beauty is extolled throughout the Bible as complementing God's plan for women's lives. There are currently no books that examine the beauty practices of biblical women, the plants and products God created to accent their beauty, and the spiritual roots of feminine rituals. Beautiful women abound in the Bible: Queen Esther, the bride of Solomon, Delilah, Rachel, Sarah, and more. Their beauty was a gift from God, and God also supplied the many foods, spices, and oils that perfected each woman's appearance. In Beauty Secrets of the Bible, Ginger Garrett helps readers accent their God-given beauty using these secrets. Women who read the book will understand the essential oils and fragrances mentioned in Scripture (and why they are making a comeback) and will be able to create a regimen based on all-natural ancient products and techniques. Beauty Secrets of the Bible gives readers what other beauty books lack: the knowledge that a woman's unique earthly beauty is indeed a blessing from God that can be cultivated.

What does it mean to say something is beautiful? On the one hand, beauty is associated with erotic attraction; on the other, it is the primary category in aesthetics, and it is widely supposed that the proper response to a work of art is one of objective contemplation. At its core, then, beauty is a contested concept, and both sides feel comfortable appealing to the authority of Plato, and via him, to the ancient Greeks generally. So, who is right-if either? Beauty offers an elegant investigation of ancient Greek notions of beauty and, in the process, sheds light on how we ought to appreciate the artistic achievements of the classical world. The book opens by reexamining the commonly held notion that the ancient Greeks possessed no term that can be unambiguously defined as "beauty" or "beautiful." Author David Konstan discusses a number of Greek approximations before positioning the heretofore unexamined term kállos as the key to bridging the gap between beauty and desire, and tracing its evolution as applied to physical beauty, art, literature, and more. The book then examines corresponding terms in Biblical Hebrew and ancient Latin literature to highlight the survival of Greek ideas in the Latin West. The final chapter compares the ancient Greek conception of beauty with modern notions of beauty and aesthetics. In particular, it focuses on the reception of classical Greek art in the Renaissance and how Vasari and his contemporaries borrowed from Plato the sense that the beauty in art was transcendental, but left out the erotic dimension of viewing. Even if Greece was the inspiration for modern aesthetic ideals, this study illustrates how the Greek view of the relationship between beauty and desire was surprisingly consistent-and different from our own. This fascinating and magisterial exploration makes it possible to identify how the Greeks thought of beauty, what it was that attracted them, and what their perceptions can still tell us about art, love, desire-and beauty.

Art and worship to 1500. Beauty and holiness as terms of art -- The paradoxical beauty of the cross -- Beauty and proportion in the sanctuary -- The beauty of light -- The beauty of holiness alfresco -- Beauty on the altar -- Art and the Bible after 1500. Beauty, power, and doctrine -- Beauty and the eye of the beholder -- Romantic religion and the sublime -- Art after belief -- Art against belief -- Return of the transcendentals

This substantially revised and updated edition provides the most thorough evangelical treatment available on a theology of creation care.

Editors Mark Husbands, Roger Lundin and Daniel J. Treier present ten essays that explore a Christian approach to beauty and the arts. The visual arts, music and literature are considered as well as the theological meaning and place of the arts in a fallen world redeemed by Christ.

What is it that makes something beautiful? Is beauty solely in the eye of the beholder, or something deeper, more significant? In Beauty (and the Banana), Nixon writes as an introductory book for Christian leaders, providing the reader an overview of the historical, hermeneutical, and heuristic considerations of beauty. Using the artwork Comedian (a banana taped to a wall) by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan as a springboard, Nixon addresses various fundamental factors of beauty--ontology (being), teleology (form and understanding), and immutability (transcendence and eternality). Integrating poetry and classical ideals throughout, Beauty (and the Banana)'s response to the above questions may surprise all who read--beauty is more than meets the eye.

No one is immune to trials—cancer, death, divorce, loss of jobs—the list goes on. How does one cope with these traumatic events? How does one take brokenness and make something good from it? Join author Jacqueline Wallace as she shares what she’s learned throughout her life about going through life’s trials and coming out stronger and better for it. Speaking from a perspective of one who has lived with a debilitating disease and fought against breast cancer, Wallace shares truths she has learned about allowing God to transform one’s life from brokenness into a whole life, filled with hope, joy, and purpose. Brokenness to Beauty: Transforming Your Brokenness into a Beautiful Life shines a light on the pathway through the valley of suffering. It seeks to encourage, strengthen, and empower its reader on the way to wholeness, joy, and peace in the midst of trials. “I have had the privilege to enjoy reading Brokenness to Beauty and was touched by Jacque’s testimony, faith, and trust in the Savior. You will be encouraged to see how to lean on the Lord through affliction and how He is faithful to answer prayer as we trust in Him alone.” —Rose Anderson, Director of Women’s Ministry, East Cooper Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina “Like a conversation with a good friend, Jacque encourages us through her own personal experiences of finding solid hope in the midst of suffering and the unknown. Filled with inspirational and practical tools, Brokenness to Beauty guides us on how to put our own suffering into an eternal perspective, finding beauty in our brokenness.” —Debbie Haupt, Women’s Ministry Director, The Bridge Bible Church , Bakersfield, CA

'The beauty bible we've all been dreaming of' BUSTLE 'Dedicated to women of colour, but one that we all can learn from' CAROLINE HIRONS 'A sophisticated and timeless book' STRATEGIST AS FEATURED IN GLAMOUR, METRO, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND OBSERVER AN INDEPENDENT SELECTION FOR AUTUMN 2019 A GRAZIA BEAUTY BOOK CLUB PICK 'This ground-breaking, first-of-its-kind book is not only destined to become the beauty bible for women of colour everywhere, it is also a significant, relevant and influential voice in the conversation around inclusivity. Essential reading' EDWARD ENNINFUL The idea for Palette came to Vogue Contributing Beauty Editor Funmi Fetto after years of being asked by friends, family and strangers on the street for advice on products suitable for women of colour, who often find themselves excluded from mainstream beauty coverage. Following on from her career in journalism where she has extended the beauty conversation in publications such as the Observer - for whom she writes a weekly column - and written in an honest, elegant and engaging style, Fetto covers all the hair, skincare, makeup and body products available today which really work for women of colour. 'If anyone is going to decode beauty's most inclusive and brilliant products, it should be Funmi. This woman really knows her stuff and delivers it in such warm and chatty way. It's a bit like going shopping with your very beauty savvy best friend who happens to have a wicked sense of humour' LISA ELDRIDGE 'Warm, witty and welcoming' GAL-DEM

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How can this Bible Study help you? Living in this world can get messy. To each of us will come trials and suffering: Brokenness. The Brokenness to Beauty Bible Study, designed to accompany the book, Brokenness to Beauty, will guide you in transforming your brokenness into the beautiful life you long for and that God desires for you, in the midst of life’s hardships. Jacqueline Wallace has written a beautiful book and now has completed it with a Women’s Bible Study about her life’s journey with not one, but two potentially fatal diagnoses. She walks us through her daily struggles and long suffering battles. Jacqueline shows us how to be a shining light when you feel so much devastation and darkness. You will be renewed with hope, joy and purpose as you read through her study Brokenness to Beauty Bible Study: Going Deeper to the Source of Transforming Your Brokenness to Beauty. Enjoy the journey. —Dena Leavitt, Women’s Ministry Leader/Small Group Coordinator, Centerpoint Church, Colton, California Brokenness to Beauty Bible Study offers the participant a study that will encourage and teach the importance of clinging to the transforming Word of God for our Hope, Encouragement and Healing, no matter how difficult the storm. —Naomi Chow, Abide Prayer Group Leader, The Bridge Bible Church, Bakersfield, California

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This book anchors its account of the beauty of Jesus Christ to a scheme found in St Augustine of Hippo's Expositions of the Psalms. There Augustine recognized the beauty of Christ at every stage-from his pre-existence ('beautiful in heaven'), through his incarnation, the public ministry ('beautiful in his miracles, beautiful in calling to life'), passion, crucifixion, burial, resurrection ('beautiful in taking up his life again'), and glorious life 'in heaven'. Augustine never filled out this laconic summary by writing a work on Christ and his beauty. The Beauty of Jesus Christ seems to be the first attempt in Christian history to write a comprehensive account of the beauty of Christ in the light of Augustine's list. The work begins by offering a working description of what it understands by beauty as being perfect, harmonious, and radiant. Beauty, above all the divine beauty, enjoys inexhaustible meaning and overlaps with 'the holy' or the awesome and fascinating mystery of God. Loving beauty opens the way to truth and helps us grasp and practise virtue. The books needs to add some items to Augustine's list by recognizing Christ's beauty in his baptism, transfiguration, and post-resurrection sending of the Holy Spirit. It also goes beyond Augustine by showing how the imagery and language Jesus prepared in his hidden life and then used in his ministry witness to the beautiful sensibility that developed during his years at home in Nazareth. Throughout, this book draws on the Scriptures to illustrate and justify Augustine's brief claims about the beauty revealed in the whole story of Christ, from his pre-existence to his risen 'post-existence'. Where appropriate, it also cites the witness to Christ's beauty that has come from artists, composers of sacred music, the creators of icons, and writers.