A webinar lecture with Richard Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh). This webinar is a part of a series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture” and is co-sponsored with Lumen Christi Institute.
What do reason and beauty have to do with each other? Since the modern Enlightenment and Romantic movements, it has been tempting to see reason and beauty as separate or even opposed. In the Renaissance, however, rational and artistic pursuits bloomed together and even fed each other. Renaissance culture, including fine art, poetry, architecture, astronomy, and humanistic thought, both drew upon and extended ancient and medieval Christian intellectual traditions. This webinar course will examine different aspects of renaissance Christian thought and culture to explore how pursuits of reason interwove with the love of beauty.