Seeking Goodness and Beauty

Patricia Lamoureux is professor of moral theology and holds the Richard and Barbara Fisher Chair in Social Ethics at St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore MD. Kevin O'Neil, C.S.s.R, is associate professor of moral theology at the Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC. He is co-author with Peter Black of The Essential Moral Handbook. .

• Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The Formative Power of Story and the Grace of IndirectionChapter 3 Spending the Day with a Good Friend: Autobiography, Moral Character, and the Religious ImaginationChapter 4 In Search of Soul: Character and Imagination in Carlos Fuentes's The Good ConscienceChapter 5 The Transformative Power of Love in ShadowlandsChapter 6 The Attractive Power of Goodness: The Moral Landscape of John Hassler's North of HopeChapter 7 Gothic Ethics: Seeing the Beast in Our Own EyeChapter 8 Movies and Morals: The Case of Citizen KaneChapter 9 Music and Morality: "Performance" and the Normative Claim of Scores and TextsPart 10 About the Contributors

Patricia Lamoureux and Kevin O'Neil have edited a splendid volume of essays that probe the intersections of theological ethics and art and the relationship between morality and aesthetics. In the broader field of theology and the arts, this work will make a major contribution to understanding the role of the arts in the shaping of the moral life. Autobiography, film, music, the visual arts, literature are all explored in terms of their power to speak to us about grace and hope, mystery and brokenness, conscience and moral character. This is an excellent addition to the literature of theology and the arts and should be of special importance to those teaching in theology, religious studies, the arts and those in ministry.