Reverence : renewing a forgotten virtue / Paul Woodruff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodruff, Paul, 1943- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Respect.

Holy, The.

Awe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behaviour and in the vestiges of old ceremonies. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the fundamental importance of the forgotten virtue of reverence, and how awe for things greater than oneself can - indeed must - be a touchstone for other virtues like respect, humility, and charity. Ranging widely over diverse cultural terrain - from Philip Larkin to ancient Greek poetry, from modern politics to Chinese philosophy - Woodruff shows how absolutely essential reverence is to a well-functioning society.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Text Credits; 1 Introducing Reverence; 2 Without Reverence; 3 Music and a Funeral: Finding Reverence; 4 Bare Reverence; 5 Ancient Greece: The Way of Being Human; 6 Ancient China: The Way of Power; 7 Reverence Without a Creed; 8 Reverence Across Religions; 9 Relativism; 10 The Reverent Leader; 11 The Silent Teacher; 12 Home; Notes; Works Cited; Index and Glossary of Proper Names

Notes:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 21, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-773155-4

1-280-53224-6

9786610532247

0-19-803371-0

0-19-530305-9

OCLC:

476024981