Rallying the Really Human Things by Vigen Guroian

Rallying the Really Human Things by Vigen Guroian

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 ever-more-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, or to cover 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 Burke, Russell Kirk, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O'Connor, St. John Chrysostom, and other exemplars of the religious humanist tradition to diagnose our cultural crisis. But he also points the way towards a culture more solicitous of the really human things, the Chesterton phrase from which he takes his title. Guroian's wide-ranging analysis of these times provides a fresh and inimitable perspective on the practices and mores of contemporary life.

Professor of Theology at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland, Vigen Guroian He has also taught at the Ecumenical School of Theology in St. Louis. Baltimore's St. Mary's Roman Catholic Seminary. 'Incarnate Love: Studies on Orthodox Ethics' and 'Faith, Church, Mission: Essays for Renewal in the Armenian Church' are among Guroian's works.

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ISBN 13	9781932236507
ISBN 10	1932236503
Title	Rallying the Really Human Things
Author	Vigen Guroian
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	ISI Books
Year published	2005-05-30
Number of pages	254
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