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This book is about the joy of seeing the beauty of God in our lives. Both Christian faith and contemplation entail the joy of seeing God's beauty in our lives. The threefold approach of this book to the joy and beauty of God in Christan life begins with an overview of the Christian experience of beauty. Wherever there is Christian life, there is Christian vision and action. Christian action is always an expression, however implicit, of Christian vision. The pouring of God's love into our hearts through the gift of his Holy Spirit (Rom 5:5) transforms the cognitive-affective consciousness that constitutes our vision. The Spirit of Christ's love transforms our vision and action into loving Christan vision and action, enabling us to share the 'look of love' with which the Father beholds his Beloved Son (Mark 1:11; 9:7). Christ's giving sight to the blind is a metaphor for his enabling our true vision of the beauty of that love which is the joy of our salvation. Both the 'eye of love' that is Christian faith (according to Lonegran) and the 'look of love' that is Christian contemplation represent the way Christ has given sight to the blind...--from the Introduction
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