Seeking Goodness and Beauty The Use of the Arts in Theological Ethics

Name: Seeking Goodness and Beauty The Use of the Arts in Theological Ethics
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ISBN: 9780742532106

ISBN-10: 0742532100

ISBN-13: 9780742532106

Edition: 2005

Authors: Patricia Lamoureux, C.Ss.R O'Neil, Diana Fritz Cates, Russell B. Connors, Richard M. Gula

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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…

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List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.84" wide x 8.92" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Russell B. Connors, who holds and STD degree from the Academia Alphonsiana in Rome is associate professor at the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN.



Introduction




The Formative Power of Story and the Grace of Indirection




Spending the Day with a Good Friend: Autobiography, Moral Character, and the Religious Imagination




In Search of Soul: Character and Imagination in Carlos Fuentes's The Good Conscience




The Transformative Power of Love in Shadowlands




The Attractive Power of Goodness: The Moral Landscape of John Hassler's North of Hope




Gothic Ethics: Seeing the Beast in Our Own Eye




Movies and Morals: The Case of Citizen Kane




Music and Morality: "Performance" and the Normative Claim of Scores and Texts



Index


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