The third beauty, surfacing of the Kingdom, in the work of Olivier Clément

This article focuses on the conception of beauty in the theological and literary work of Olivier Clément, a French-speaking Orthodox thinker of the twentieth century. Olga Lossky-Laham conducts a stylistic and theological analysis of Clément's language, examining the way in which his writing conveys a singular spiritual experience. The central idea is that of a "third beauty," distinct from natural beauty and artistic beauty, which manifests itself as a sign or surfacing of the Kingdom of God within ordinary reality itself. The article makes a twofold contribution: it illuminates the coherence between Clément's literary form and his theological vision, and it contributes to Orthodox reflection on eschatological aesthetics, showing how language can itself become a place of transparency to the divine within a perspective of the theology of beauty.