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Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine's Thought (Hardcover)
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Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine's Thought (Hardcover)
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Augustine's dominant image for the human life is peregrinatio,
which signifies at once a journey to the homeland (a pilgrimage)
and the condition of exile from the homeland. For Augustine, all
human beings are, in the earthly life, exiles from their true
homeland: heaven. Some, but not all, become pilgrims seeking a way
back to the heavenly homeland, a return mediated by the incarnate
Christ. Becoming a pilgrim begins with attraction to beauty. The
return journey therefore involves formation, both moral and
aesthetic, in loving rightly. This image has occasioned a lot of
angst in ethical thought in the last century. Augustine's vision of
Christian life as a pilgrimage, his critics allege, casts a pall of
groaning and longing over this life in favor of happiness in the
next. Augustine's eschatological orientation robs the world of
beauty and ethics of urgency. In Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic
Formation in Augustine's Thought, Sarah Stewart-Kroeker responds to
Augustine's critics by elaborating the Christological continuity
between the earthly journey and the eschatological home. Through
this cohesive account of pilgrimage as a journey toward the right
ordering of the desire for beauty and love for God and neighbour,
Stewart-Kroeker reveals the integrity of Augustine's vision of
moral and aesthetic vision. From the human desire for beauty to the
embodied practice of Christian sacraments, Stewart-Kroeker develops
an account of the relationship between beauty and morality as the
linchpin of an Augustinian moral theology.
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