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Bob Utley, "John 1" from the series The Beloved Disciple's Memoirs and Letters.

"Color" Wikipedia article.

Robert P. Mills, "Beauty, the Beholder, and the Believer" Theology Matters, Vol. 15, No. 5. Nov/Dec 2009. (An excellent, academic article, well worth the read.)

Chapter from Philip Graham Ryken's Art for God’s Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts, P&R Publishing - Philipsburg, 2006. Dr. Ryken is President of Wheaton College.

"Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa and the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, to present-day scientific figures such as Oxford physicist Roger Penrose, have spent endless hours over this simple ratio and its properties. But the fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians. Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. In fact, it is probably fair to say that the Golden Ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics." —Mario Livio,The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, The World's Most Astonishing Number, p.6 Wikipedia article.

"In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following integer sequence, called the Finonacci sequence, and characterized by the fact that every number after the first two is the sum of the two preceding ones: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144… etc. Wikipedia article.

Bob Perry, "A Mind for the Beautiful" Christian Research Journal, volume 37, number 04 (2014). Published on the Equip website.

"The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting 'the positively good and beautiful man'… Philosopher A.C. Grayling called it 'one of the most excoriating, compelling and remarkable books ever written; and without question one of the greatest.'" Wikipedia article.

Doug Ponder, "Beauty Will Save the World" Christianity.com website, February 24, 2014.

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