Hannah Grimes
The Sublime
One of our class discussions early on in the semester looked at the concept of “the sublime.” Edmund Burke described this as a “wondrous or beautiful quality: that is so great it causes us to draw back with a feeling of being overwhelmed. It is something that imparts a sense of beauty, but at the same time it also makes us feel weak or small. Burke also said that the sublime is “the strongest emotion that the mind is capable of feeling.” I feel like it is difficult to take in beauty, wonder, and fear at the same time. I think these experiences are most often found in nature. Natural wonders are more awe-inspiring because they have not been constructed by human effort; instead they represent the glory of God’s creation and reflect the sublimity of His own nature.
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