Beauty

I found an interesting article on the crossovers between theology and the christian traditions at:
http://www.cslewis.org/journal/physics-and-christian-theology-beauty-a-common-dialect/

The author discusses the search for beauty as a major talking point between the two ideals. Physicists are always looking for a simple expression, a symmetry, a grand underlying principle from which you can derive things. To them (us?) this is what makes a system beautiful, simple expressions and no chaotic or un-neccessarily complicated principles or equations describing a system. For example, most of electro-statics is well defined and derived very simply from single equation, Coulomb's law. For the followers of the christian tradition beauty has also been a target, a kind of beauty in the worship of god and messiah, a beauty in salvation, a community coming together. Many things describe the christian world's beautiful, just as many things describe the physical beauty of the world, maybe there is overlap to be found.