Seeking Goodness and Beauty

The Use of the Arts in Theological Ethics
Herausgeber: Lamoureux, Patricia; C Ss R

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Seeking Goodness and Beauty: The Use of the Arts in Theological Ethics offers the reader a unique and innovative perspective on questions of ethics and how we can incorporate the human experience of the Arts to best live and teach the moral life. Art and aesthetic experiences transcend borders and engage us rationally, emotionally, and sensually. Novels, film, autobiography, and music can all contribute to the moral formation of good character and virtue as well as to the skill of discerning right action by developing imagination, shaping moral vision, tutoring the emotions, or guiding the process of moral discernment. Seeking Goodness and Beauty brings together theory and practice in an approachable, engaging manner and offers methods of pedagogy to encourage the use of the arts in moral education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780742532090
• ISBN-10: 0742532097
• Artikelnr.: 21154740

Autorenporträt

Patricia Lamoureux is professor of moral theology and holds the Richard and Barbara Fisher Chair in Social Ethics at St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore MD. Kevin O'Neil, C.S.s.R, is associate professor of moral theology at the Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC. He is co-author with Peter Black of The Essential Moral Handbook. .

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Formative Power of Story and the Grace of Indirection
Chapter 3 Spending the Day with a Good Friend: Autobiography, Moral
Character, and the Religious Imagination
Chapter 4 In Search of Soul: Character and Imagination in Carlos Fuentes's
The Good Conscience
Chapter 5 The Transformative Power of Love in Shadowlands
Chapter 6 The Attractive Power of Goodness: The Moral Landscape of John
Hassler's North of Hope
Chapter 7 Gothic Ethics: Seeing the Beast in Our Own Eye
Chapter 8 Movies and Morals: The Case of Citizen Kane
Chapter 9 Music and Morality: "Performance" and the Normative Claim of
Scores and Texts
Part 10 About the Contributors