| Format: | Paperback |
| Page Count: | 184 |
| Size: | 5.5 in x 8.5 in |
| Weight: | 8.0 ounces |
| ISBN-10: | 1-4335-7174-9 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-4335-7174-9 |
| ISBN-UPC: | 9781433571749 |
| Published: | January 27, 2026 |
How Christianity Provides the Most Convincing Explanation for Beauty
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” After spending time in nature or witnessing an awe-inducing phenomenon, it’s hard to believe that the feeling of beauty is merely a matter of personal preference developed over time. Proposing that beauty is not accidental or circumstantial, this book argues that it is a fundamental quality woven into the very fabric of our created world.
Beauty Speaks shows how the Christian faith provides the most convincing explanation for the existence and experience of beauty. Divided into three thought-provoking sections, author Bryan Baise explains a brief theology of beauty, explores how beauty discloses its presence, and highlights potential roadblocks to recognizing beauty in our world today—technology, a lack of play, and an inability to see the relationship between beauty and morality. Readers will gain a new perspective on this often forgotten apologetic—a lens through the eyes of their Creator, the one who made them beautiful in his image.
- Practical Themes: Shows how beauty is meant to shape our faith and highlights its potential roadblocks to being recognized in our world today
- Accessible: Makes an often forgotten apologetic attainable to the everyday Christian and makes a case for Christianity for unbelievers
- Written for Artists: Perfect for those engaging in the arts, college and grad students, and pastors who want to explore beauty with their congregations
Author:
Bryan Baise is a born-and-raised Kentuckian, writer, and amateur coach with more than a decade of teaching experience in philosophy, literature, and apologetics. He lives in Louisville with his wife and three children.
Product Details
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: How Did We Get Here?
Why Belief Needs Beauty
Part 1: Why Beauty Matters
Chapter 2: Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Chapter 3: Beauty Speaks in the Bible
Part 2: Beauty’s Presence
Chapter 4: Beauty Speaks in Nature
Chapter 5: Beauty Speaks in the Arts
Chapter 6: Beauty Speaks in the Everyday
Part 3: Beauty’s Promise
Chapter 7: Beauty Speaks in Play
Chapter 8: Beauty Speaks Morally
Chapter 9: Beauty Speaks Against Technique
Envoi: Look and See
General Index
Scripture Index
Endorsements
“Many Christian apologetic works have focused on two of the transcendentals—the good and the true—with beauty left to the periphery. This is a problem. We reason toward certain ends, and we pursue the ends we most desire. Beauty, as Bryan Baise rightly argues, speaks to these desires. At a time when many inside and outside the church struggle with what a life of authentic faith looks like, Beauty Speaks helps us recover a holistic approach to persuasion that awakens the imagination and speaks to the heart.”
Joshua Chatraw, Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism and Cultural Engagement, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University
“A delightful and rich reflection on the pervasiveness, power, and playfulness of beauty. Bryan Baise’s Beauty Speaks radiates with the joyful conviction that we were created by God to be nourished by beauty. Read and ponder, and then look for beauty. See beauty. Stay with beauty. And find God in and through beauty.”
Paul M. Gould, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Director of the Master of Arts in Philosophy of Religion Program, Palm Beach Atlantic University
“Many Christians, in a proper zeal to commend the truth, have forgotten beauty. The result is a diminished imagination and a witness that rings with an indistinct sound. In this book, Bryan Baise writes to reawaken us—first to the way that beauty provokes our deepest longings, then to the way that the Christian story grounds that experience in the goodness of creation and the truth of the gospel.”
Justin Ariel Bailey, Professor of Theology, Dordt University; author, Reimagining Apologetics: The Beauty of Faith in a Secular Age
“Beauty speaks indeed! The question is whether we are attuned not only to see the objective beauty all around us but also to hear its message—and ultimately to discover the artist who stands behind it all. Beauty Speaks leads us to God as the ground of reality and the source of all beauty. This book is a wonderful addition to the contemporary apologetics corpus that is sometimes too often focused on dragging people, as C. S. Lewis put it about his own conversion, ‘kicking, struggling, and resentful’ by strict and cold logic. The case for Christianity from beauty, by contrast, entices, enchants, and awakens in us a longing for its truth. Beauty Speaks is essential reading for anyone seeking to make the case for Christianity as true, good, and beautiful.”
Travis Dickinson, Professor of Philosophy, Dallas Baptist University; author, Wandering Toward God: Finding Faith Amid Doubts and Big Questions