“What is the Role of Beauty in Genesis?

By Faryn Thomas, Jennifer Morse, Joseph Marques, and Robert Carhuayo           God’s divine goodness and beauty are often mentioned in the same breath. But there are other things that are somewhat surprisingly portrayed as beautiful, for example, Sodom. “The people’s settlements there were beautiful — the men without honor, hateful to their creator” (137) The Sodomites are obviously without any sort of goodness or grace, and…