Theological Aesthetics

In The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, Volume I: Seeing the Form, Hans Urs von Balthasar describes a theological aesthetics that "develops its theory of beauty from the data of revelation itself with genuinely theological methods." 

According to von Balthasar, the supreme object of beauty is the form of divine revelation centered on Jesus Christ, who is God, bears witness to God as a man, and reveals God's glory, "the primal splendour of the love of a God who humiliates himself."  This sacrifice does not destroy, however, for it transfigures all of creation through love.  His form, "the most sublime of beauties," which can be seen by those filled with the Holy Spirit, captivates Christians and inflames their love, and thus the Christian form is the most beautiful human form.

(Quotes are from the translation by Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, published by Ignatius Press.)