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    It is not the case that Art produced in service of religion does not qualify as art in the fullest sense.

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    • 1.The premise that 'genuine art requires working for art's own sake' is a historically contingent Romantic doctrine, not a universal criterion of artistic value.
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    • 2.Aquinas and the medieval tradition held that beauty is a transcendental property of being itself, meaning sacred art participates in beauty more fully, not less.
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    • 3.If subordinating beauty to meaning disqualifies art, then Dante's Commedia, Bach's cantatas, and Chartres Cathedral must be excluded, which constitutes a reductio of the claim.
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    • 1.Hegel argued that art's highest vocation was to give sensuous expression to the Absolute, making religious art the paradigm of art's fullest realization.
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    • 2.If art achieves its fullest sense when it expresses the deepest truths humanity can articulate, then art serving ultimate concerns exceeds purely decorative or autonomous art.
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    • 1.Art produced in service of religion was not worked for art's own sake.
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    • 2.Genuine art requires that the artist work for art's own sake.
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    • 3.Religious art subordinated beauty to the communication of meaning.
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