Yet Jesus Christ is also the Life. This means he is the one who conquers death and offers life eternal to all. But as many biblical scholars have noted, \u201ceternal life\u201d\u009d is about a life of unimaginable quality. A life of beauty.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeauty,\u201d\u009d wrote psychologist Rollo May, \u201cis the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously. \u201d\u00a6 Beauty is serene and at the same time exhilarating; it increases one\u2019s sense of being alive. \u201d\u00a6 Beauty is the mystery which enchants us.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Beauty fills us with joy and peace precisely because it indirectly and mysteriously manifests the one who is the Life. One might even paraphrase our Lord and say that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the beautiful. Or to put it more succinctly, it is in Jesus Christ that we can know, relish, and live into what we here at CT call a \u201cbeautiful orthodoxy.\u201d\u009d It is in Christ alone that we can know, relish, and live into the truly good, the truly true, and the truly beautiful as manifested in Jesus\u2019 life, death, and resurrection.<\/p>\n