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This 3 page paper provides an overview of the concept of beauty as it realtes to the beliefs of the Augustinians. This paper relates a spiritual view of beauty. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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determined many of the approaches to assessing spiritual participation in dictating a moral constructs within the scope of a spiritual life. The orders of the Augustinians, which included the
Augustinian Recollects and the Discalced Augustinians, applied an understanding of St. Augustines authorship to their ordered lives and developed a mendicant order that gained increasing focus on the 16th century
(Daly et al. 92). The followers of the writings of St. Augustine of Hippo believed that spirituality lies in the ability to live the spiritual life. In
correlation with this view, spirituality was linked to the concept of beauty, but beauty was shaped by an understanding of the perfection and beauty of heaven, rather than in the
physical beauty of the flesh. St. Augustine maintained that beauty in the world, spiritual beauty, was a necessary stepping stone to experiencing the beauty of heaven (Mursell 60).
Essentially, "spirituality can become the vehicle towards the divine" and spirituality is a foundation of beauty (Torevell 40). Beauty from any modern sense reflects an understanding of cultural
and social views on physicality which were absent from then Augustinian assessments of beauty. Beauty for St. Augustine was perceived as a component of the godly, of Gods capacity
for creation and of the vivid ideals of the heavenly world (Burrus, Jordan & MacKendrick 91). Beauty is reflected in the creation of heaven and earth and in the
actions of mankind that reflect the messages of God. "Heaven and earth and all that is in them everywhere tell me that I should bring you love" (Burrus, Jordan
& MacKendrick 91). This contact, this love, and the repeated image of God providing love for mankind is the kind of beauty that the Augustinians believed was essential to
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