ABSTRACT
The author suggests a theistic answer to the question of why the pursuit of the beautiful in a scientific mode draws people to discover the truth: why loving the beautiful for its goodness gives them a window on objectivity. Coupled to the assertion that a personal perspective is required for people to acquire loving knowledge of the world is the claim that that perspective is authentic, or irreducible. The Hebrew Scriptures, through their depiction of God's ordering of the world, and the wisdom components of them as a particular strand of thinking, suggest an understanding of God that would find resonance with or relationship to human intelligence. From a Christian perspective, this understanding might emphasise Jesus as the incarnation of God's Wisdom and God's Word: God's Logos, the structuring and ordering principle of creation. God creates people free, with the freedom to make choices, and those choices can be for good or evil, and can be creative or destructive.
