Beauty Is the Gravitas Amoris: A Trinitarian Correlation of Beauty and Love

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The text is very interesting. It takes up one of the key issues of theological aesthetics: the relationship between beauty and love. The author is clearly inspired by Augustine's thinking: the proposed solution to the framing of beauty as attraction is classical and Augustinian, especially in the connection of beauty and love (for Augustine, love is a burden, an attraction: amor meus pondus meus). Quite original is the proposal to link this type of thinking with the main correlates of Trinitarian theology. Beauty is attributed by the author of the article to the Trinity, rather than just apriopriating it to one person in particular. 

P. 2. "Beauty and Love in the history of philosophy". I suggest changing the title of the paragraph: it basically talks about three ancient thinkers. Instead, the title is very broad. 

P. 5: Footnotes 34-36: page citation missing. 

P. 17: Footnote 116 - page numbers are missing

Author Response

Thank you for your kind comments. In response to the points raised: 

 

"P. 2. "Beauty and Love in the history of philosophy". I suggest changing the title of the paragraph: it basically talks about three ancient thinkers. Instead, the title is very broad. "

 

Fair enough. I have changed the title to "Beauty and Love in Aristotle, Plato, and Plotinus." 

I have updated citations accordingly to add the page number or the book-chapter-paragraph indicator in Williams' translation of The Confessions. 

 

 

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors This article is excellent and should be published. A couple of references that might interest the author: Sophie Grace Chappell has written a good deal about the connections between beauty and goodness, e.g. in her book Epiphanies (OUP 2022), especially Chapters 1 and 3, and in her book Knowing What To Do (OUP 2015), especially Chapters 6 and 7. And a couple of things that might be worth correcting: a) pursuiting is not a word; b) the quotation from Romans on p.18 has a lot of irrelevant markings in it. It would be better either to reproduce the Greek accurately, or not at all.

 

Comments on the Quality of English Language And a couple of things that might be worth correcting: a) pursuiting is not a word; b) the quotation from Romans on p.18 has a lot of irrelevant markings in it. It would be better either to reproduce the Greek accurately, or not at all.

 

Author Response

Thank you for your kind comments and very helpful suggestion. I will interact with Sophie Grace Chappell's work in future engagement. In reply to the comments for correction:

 

-I have updated the Greek citation accordingly to remove irrelevant textual markers. I have also corrected the "pursuiting" typo. Thanks again!