Fiesole, Italia
There's an interesting juxtaposition at work in Fiesole. For one, I'm in the midst of a bucolic Mediterranean hillside, complete with a working olive grove. The view is stunning. At dusk, one no doubt knows that "the world is charged with the grandeur of God"...at least I hope that one knows that. And Yet that view is invariably experienced in the presence of the skyline of Firenze, complete with its Duomo. Does this medieval/Renaissance masterpiece of man detract from it all? Or perhaps we have two manifestations of the grandeur of God: 1. nature 2. that which man has created with his God-given reason.
Thoughts?
Pieper: "Leisure the Basis of Culture"
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