I accidentally stumbled across an interesting article called “Seek My Face” by Peter Sellick with a lot of nice jewels in it, such as this:

The gospel reveals how the world is, in contrast to how it appears to be. That is, its function is apocalyptic, it breaks through the veil through which we see the world out of focus to produce a clear view. This is what it means to seek the face of God, to see clearly for the first time. The job of the visual artist is to educate our seeing so that we see anew, just as the job of the musician is to educate our hearing so that we hear anew. So also the novelist, the poet, the architect and the philosopher, they all strive for truth in their work and in this way all seek the face of God. The beatific vision in the Bible, seeing the face of God, is fraught with danger, indeed to see the face of God was to die. It is no wonder that great artists have a difficult time of it and are often transformed, put to death, by their art.

The other seekers after the face of God are, of course, the scientists although they will protest at being subsumed into a theological framework. The scientist seeks to reveal how things are despite their appearances. It is obvious to anyone who looks at the sky that the sun, moon and stars move around the earth. Copernicus had to deny his senses in order to elucidate the heliocentric view of the solar system. The revealing of a reality hidden from the senses or from common sense is the mark of scientific work as it is for the arts.

The whole thing’s worth reading, I think. It’s not too long either.