This project is about the dynamic relationship between Beauty and preaching. God calls all creation to Godself through Beauty. The Gospel shines with Beauty. As occasions of preaching are meant to reflect, embody and call forth the Beauty of the Gospel in listeners, the preacher is called to give attention to Beauty in the text, congregation and self. Through a three year preaching endeavour with Beauty, this project explores how a preacher and a congregation were formed by intentional engagement with Beauty in ways that awakened them to God's Presence, refreshed their hearing of the Gospel and called them to lives of active response. Along the journey with preaching and Beauty there evolved a clear path of spiritual and homiletical formation, and this 'Beauty Hermeneutic' is intended for use by any preacher who desires to approach and encounter the preaching task shaped by the ways of Beauty.
