Rallying the Really Human Things

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For Vigen Guroian, contemporary culture is distinguished by its relentless assault on the moral imagination. In the stories it tells us, in the way it has degraded courtship and sexualized our institutions of higher education, in the evermore radical doctrines of human rights it propounds, and in the way it threatens to remake human nature via biotechnology, contemporary culture conspires to deprive men and women of the kind of imagination that Edmund Burke claimed allowed us to raise our perception of our own human dignity, covering "the defects of our own naked shivering nature."
In Rallying the Really Human Things, Guroian combines a theologian's keen sensitivity to the things of the spirit with his immersion in the works of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O'Connor, St. John Chrysostom, and other exemplars of the religious humanist tradition in order to diagnose our cultural crisis. But he also points the way toward a culture... Tovább

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Religion / Philosophy
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For Vigen Guroian, contemporary culture is distinguished by its relentless assault on the moral imagination. In the stories it tells us, in the way it has degraded courtship and sexualized our institutions of higher education, in the evermore radical doctrines of human rights it propounds, and in the way it threatens to remake human nature via biotechnology, contemporary culture conspires to deprive men and women of the kind of imagination that Edmund Burke claimed allowed us to raise our perception of our own human dignity, covering "the defects of our own naked shivering nature."
In Rallying the Really Human Things, Guroian combines a theologian's keen sensitivity to the things of the spirit with his immersion in the works of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O'Connor, St. John Chrysostom, and other exemplars of the religious humanist tradition in order to diagnose our cultural crisis. But he also points the way toward a culture more solicitous of the "really human things," the Chestertonian phrase from which he takes his title. Guroian's wide-ranging analysis of our times provides a fresh and unique perspective on the practices and mores of contemporary life.
vigen Guroian is Professor of Theology at Loyola College in Maryland. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Ethics after Christendom: Toward an Ecclesial Christian Ethic and Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination.
"In this eloquent and substantive book, Guroian uses the light of the past to point the way to a more human and civilized niture."
—Michael Medved
nationally syndicated radio host and author of Right Turns
"Vigen Guroian's courageous and discerning vision illuminates both current issues of burning importance (campus promiscuity, nationalism, and gay marriage, for example), and major Christian thinkers of the recent past (Chesterton, O'Connor, and Kirk). This compendium is a resource that will help us all see more clearly."
—Frederica Mathewes-Green
columnist for Beliefnet.com and author of The Illuminated Heart: The Ancient Christian Path ofTransformation
"These eloquent and wide-ranging essays in the moral imagination establish Vigen Guroian as our own Chesterton. For with fine Chestertonian wit, he demonstrates that the modern West is not heinously wicked so much as it is wildly virtuous, as the old Christian virtues, uprooted from their native theological soil, continue to produce mad sprouts. Responding astringently to the cultural and religious vexations of our age, Guroian restores these saving virtues to the deep loam of Christian tradition."
—Ralph Wood
University Professor of Theology and Literature, Baylor University
"Guroian is a rare and precious bird these days: a scholar of the Real. Here he focuses his moral passion and theologian's mind on some of today's most smoldering issues."
—Kevin Ryan
Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, Boston University
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