Friday, 31 August 2012
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Beauty, Nature and Tiny Houses
By Sam at Creative TheologyThe untamed Nature is a source of incessant beauty. Why is this? Is it because the beauty of Nature lies in its complexities and its eternal variety? Our mind is simply stimulated by our insufficiency in facing its details. We are intrigued and inspired by that which we cannot understand or even grasp.
I raise similar questions and come to similar conclusions in Creative Theology regarding out interaction with nature. Untamed nature has a way of swallowing us up in its beauty. We are intrigued, inspired, and also beset with a longing. A desire to return. A holy nostalgia. When we see nature around us, it draws us back to the Garden, and to the Creator who spoke our existence into being. Nature is powerfully emotional.
But the quote above is not from a theological conversation, rather a conversation about architecture. From the man who built this tiny, beautiful house.
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Naturalism is the antithesis of Christianity.
So no, I don't have a longing to return to bone grinding poverty, incessant insect feedings on my succulent human body and all the misery of cold, wet, hot, fetid, and infectious misery that Mother Nature has to offer.The only people who wish a return to nature are the bored, rich and stupid.
I love this. I have a tendency to forget about nature while I'm absorbed in school or life in general. It really is true though now the beauty of nature draws you back to it, even if you lose sight of it for a while. Architecture that compliments nature and becomes a part of it rather than just sitting on top of it has always drawn me in. Frank Lloyd Wright in particular is a favorite of mine, but I love this little house and everything that it stands for.
@PrisonerxOfxLove@xanga - I don't know if it's all that cut-and-dried - the difference between natural lifestyle and Christianity. In the Garden of Eden, before the Fall, man, God, and His creation lived in harmony such as we've not seen.
Very few can actually "return" to nature entirely, given the advances of technology and invention. Yes, poverty, true "bone-grinding poverty" is miserable; but most people have great advantage over those in the distant past who had no choice and no such advantages as we now have.
I'm not sure how creative theology would offer a more formal logical argument for God's existence, but it would be an interesting challenge. Nice concept. I'm trained in architecture and love logic, so this post caught my eye.
I've only written on architecture and prophecy, but I like your approach.