{Grace and Beauty}[19th February 1989]

[Redbook6:99-100)][19890219:1218g]{Grace and Beauty}[19th February 1989]

19890219.1218

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But* I can never worship Christ. I can revere him, honour him, follow (discriminatingly, because the records are confused) his teaching.** But I can never accept (nor do I believe that he claimed) that he had a divinity unavailable at least in principle to the rest of us – very far though I am from such levels myself. This is a divinity not of origin but of gift and attainment: grace, in my sense of the word, the divinity of the unveiling of the Spirit.

I was thinking yesterday how useful is that word [‘]grace[’], incorporating as it does the notion of the divine gift and the Human response revealed not only mentally in grace of thought, of speech, of manner but even physically in that unconscious grace of movement and repose which is so much of what we call Beauty.*** To the old as to the young, to the crippled as to the whole, to the slow as to the quick, it is Grace which gives Beauty; and although it can be self-consciously and imperfectly imitated, it can never be forced.

*[See last previous entry]

**[or try to]

***{cf [[Redbook6:8][19881015:1255d]{Beauty}[15th October 1988] ] 8,

[[Redbook6:177-178][19890801:1013]{Love and Sex (3)}[1st August 1989]] 178}

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