Selections from Section 6
The knowledge conferred by faith
is of a different kind:
it presupposes a personal encounter with God
in Jesus Christ.
Yet this knowledge too can be enriched
by artistic intuition.
An eloquent example of aesthetic contemplation
sublimated in faith are, for example,
the works of Fra Angelico.
No less notable in this regard is the ecstatic lauda,
which Saint Francis of Assisi twice repeats
in the chartula which he composed
after receiving the stigmata of Christ
on the mountain of La Verna:
“You are beauty... You are beauty!”