Divine Beauty out of Consummate Ugliness

Thomas Dubay is author of a powerful book about the beauty of God in Jesus entitled "The Evidential Power of Beauty." As we're about to complete going through N.T. Wright's book about Jesus, I want to share a short portion from Dubay's book:

"Far, far beyond all created beauties, breathtaking as we have seen them to be..., is the divine glory that shines out from this unsurpassable love found in the torture of Holy Week. Perfection himself whipped to blood, crowned with thorns, mocked, spit upon, ridiculed, nailed, pierced - all because he loves you and me, who have in return sinned against him. In this consummate ugliness, this unspeakable outrage, shines a picture of divine beauty immeasurably beyond all earthly splendors..."