#The beholder full#
When a fishing boat full of explosives is seized near Seaport, Ellen's stubborn loyalty to her Iranian friends lands her in the FBI's spotlight-and Guy's bad graces. But his wife, Ellen, is so consumed with her quirky, needy friends that she misses his victory dinner-and bright, beautiful legal secretary Kinsey Abbott is only too glad to keep him company. He just won the biggest case of his career and is being hailed by his law partners. Who is my neighbor? Guy Jones is about to burst his buttons. Guy soon discovers Kinsey's dark side, which inevitably pulls him into a web of danger and deceit. Communication between the Joneses rapidly deteriorates when Ellen's stubborn loyalty to an Iranian couple lands her in the FBI's spotlight-and Guy's bad graces. Little does she know that Kinsey Abbott, Guy's pretty legal secretary, is more than happy to keep him company. But his wife, Ellen, is consumed with her quirky, needy friends and misses his victory dinner. Such criteria reflect the criteria of God and the world as He originally made it, a complex creation reflecting proportion and harmony.Things Aren't Always How They Appear Guy Jones is about to burst his buttons. Historically, Christian thinkers have evaluated art according to four criteria: proportion, harmony, simplicity, and complexity. He makes all things beautiful in their time (Eccl. Works of art that somehow reflect His nature are more beautiful than works that do not. Of course, God is the ultimate standard of beauty, just as He is the ultimate standard of truth. Otherwise, they might pay as much for a chimpanzee's fingerpainting as they would for a portrait by Da Vinci. Yet although objective standards are harder for people to recognize in the realm of aesthetics, people still have some kind of standard in mind when they evaluate the arts. No one who wants to live, for example, disregards the universal truth of gravity when standing near the edge of a cliff. Even those who profess relativism vociferously live according to certain objective standards.
To recognize the role of the subject, however, is not to embrace aesthetic subjectivism. We must recognize that the subject is deeply involved in any response to music, painting, sculpture, or any other work of art. Musical preferences and artistic appreciation, for example, vary widely. Without a doubt, there is a highly subjective response to beauty that differs from person to person. Few would affirm that there is any objective way to define one work of art as more beautiful than another. Christians who would otherwise affirm the existence of absolute truth seem just as likely as their non-Christian neighbors to believe that beauty is solely in the eye of the beholder. We see the embrace of subjectivism quite clearly in the realm of aesthetics as well. The only absolute truth that most people in our society will affirm is that there is no such thing as absolute truth. Every day, people deny the existence of universal, objective truth, preferring instead to affirm that "what is true for me may not be true for you, and what is true for you may not be true for me." This is particularly clear when ethics are under consideration. If there is anything we learn from observing the culture around us, it is that subjectivity is king.
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