And Beauty Will Make You Free: On the Transformative Power of Beauty

In allusion to the famous Johannine dictum, this paper seeks explore relationship between beauty and liberation. Liberation is here understood in terms of a movement toward transforming all reality accordance with principles coming reign God, ‘so that God may be all’ (1 Cor 15:28). Complementarily, not interpreted merely as matter taste preference but something permeates dimensions being human. The paper, therefore, argues only gives expression human yearning for transformation both liberation represent constitutive elements Christian praxis. Thus, provides framework through which current can seen also discerned, experienced, performed new way, thus effectively opening up possibilities God’s project inaugurating heaven earth. Therefore, it will proposed represents key theme theological reflection (locus theologicus), having aesthetic, ethical, ontological implications theology. This point discussed conversation various voices illustrated engagement cinema, namely, Jane Campion’s Power Dog.