ABSTRACT
To the aesthetically minded, be they skeptical or devout, the Christian tradition is viewed in an aesthetic way. For them Christianity (or for that matter, Buddhism or Classicism, Daoism or Confucianism, to name but a few) is based on facts and feelings. Those facts center on possibly canonical works or biographies, towards which they may feel indifferent, hostile, or devoted. So Christianity is a matter of taste, be it indifferent or absolute. The secular aesthetes are indifferent or absolutely hostile to the intellectual meaning of Christianity. What is curious is that the religious aesthetes are also.
