beatitude

“The church does not know of any means other than baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude” — that is, heaven.

In the unrepentant shadows it’s hard to tell if he’s studying or mediating, but it’s still a beatitude of Blackness: color as signifier, color as artifact, color as stone cold fact.

After surgery, Price describes “a kind of stunned beatitude.”

There is no Dante in Beatrice’s beatitude, Hägglund writes, and no Beatrice in Dante’s beatitude.

It also supplies a backdrop of human folly to throw the beatitude of Adam and his robot kin into sharp relief.