Only the Christian worldview adequately accounts for the existence and experience of beauty at all. What explanation of beauty can be offered by Christian Theism’s chief competitor, Philosophical Naturalism? The experience of beauty in such a view will ultimately be an illusion, the chance reaction of certain chemicals in the mind of the perceiver would give rise to certain subjective feelings that have no real basis in a transcendent reality. Yet the very universality of the experience of beauty, both in cultural art forms and in the creation at large, seems to mitigate against such a perspective. The Christian worldview seems to make better sense of reality in this case. Mohler believes that only the Christian view of beauty “explains why the world is beautiful, but not quite.” (Mohler did a really excellent three-part series on the subject last month. Part 1 is here.) The beauty one encounters in the world can be explained in terms of the Creator God who is infinitely beautiful. The fact that beauty is fleeting or sometimes comingled with ugliness and death is explained by the Christian doctrine of sin and the Fall. The Christian worldview ultimately speaks to the great hope beauty brings – the hope that all things will, in fact, be restored through the work of Christ. In the kingdom of Christ real beauty will finally and forever chase away ugliness. Indeed, when viewed in light of the gospel, one might say with Dostoevski, “Beauty will save the world.”