Jennifer Newsome Martin

Jennifer Newsome Martin is an assistant professor in the Program of Liberal Studies, with a concurrent appointment in the department of theology at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of the book Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015).

The Healing Power of Beauty

Published by Jennifer Newsome Martin

A Triptych of Short Fiction, Sacred Art, and Modern Poetry

This is an essay about vision and blindness, about seeing and the failure to see, about wholes and fragments, sickness and healing, light and darkness, about nativity and the rebirth to eternal youth, about a mode of beauty that does not and cannot exclude ugliness, the nocturnal, suffering, and death but rather fundamentally transfigures ...