Is there any relation between the sublime and beauty other than that they are both aesthetic categories?  Burke thought not; he thought they were opposite ends of the scale, with beauty giving pleasure and the sublime invoking terror (which could, in some ways, be a pleasurable experience, if only in the knowledge that the terror was fictitious).  If the sublime is, as Burke thought, the opposite end of the scale to beauty, then perhaps we might associate it with the ugly.  But, given what I said in the previous post about beauty and the ugly, if there cannot be such a hard and fast distinction between beauty and ugliness, at least in theological terms, can there be such a distinction between beauty and the sublime?