Beauty will save the world : recovering the human in an ideological age / Gregory Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfe, Gregory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Christian literature--History and criticism.

Christian literature.

Humanity.

Civilization--21st century.

Civilization.

Culture--21st century.

Culture.

Physical Description:

xv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books Intercollegiate Studies, [2011]

Summary:

A writer in residence at Seattle Pacific University, Wolfe founded and edits the literature and arts journal Image. Here he shares his thoughts about how Christian humanism can improve the world. His sections cover from ideology to humanism; Christianity, literature, and modernity; six writers; three artists; and four men of letters. Among his topics are a portrait of the editor as a young man, the writer of faith in a fractured culture, Evelyn Waugh, Wendell Barry, Mary McCleary, and Malcolm Muggeridge. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Part 1 From Ideology to Humanism

1 Beauty Will Save the World 1

2 A Portrait of the Editor as a Young Man 9

3 Art, Faith, and the Stewardship of Culture 17

4 Christian Humanism: A Faith for All Seasons 29

Part 2 Christianity, Literature, and Modernity

5 The Writer of Faith in a Fractured Culture 49

6 Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Catholic Writer in the Modern World 61

7 After This Our Exile: The Christian Poet in the Modern World 77

8 The End in the Beginning: The Paradox of Artistic Creativity 93

Part 3 Six Writers

9 Evelyn Waugh: Savage Indignation 105

10 Shusaku Endo: At the Crossroads between East and West 119

11 Geoffrey Hill: True Sequences of Pain 127

12 Andrew Lytle: Myth and Memory 137

13 Wendell Berry: Marriage to a Place 153

14 Larry Woiwode: The Overwhelming Question 163

Part 4 Three Artists

15 Fred Folsom: Grace à Go-Go 173

16 Mary McCleary: Constructing Paradox 191

17 Makoto Fujimura: Refiner's Fire 197

Part 5 Four men of Letters

18 Russell Kirk: Politics and the Imagination 203

19 Gerhart Niemeyer: Discerning the Spirits 215

20 Malcolm Muggeridge: Slow Pilgrim 233

21 Marion Montgomery: Being and Metaphor 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781933859880

1933859881

OCLC:

694395365