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An illuminating examination of Dorothy L. Sayers' Trinitarian understanding of human creativity as a theologically authentic basis for a Christian life.
The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artistic creation. Sayers' analogy gives us an account of the person that does not collapse into the atomism of the individual of modern liberal capitalism, but is fully relational. By putting Sayers into dialogue with Alasdair MacIntyre, the book develops a fully Trinitarian theology of work that accounts for the interdependence of human beings, and for the ethical requirements of caring for the weak, the young, and the old in a way that is gender neutral.
The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artistic creation. Sayers' analogy gives us an account of the person that does not collapse into the atomism of the individual of modern liberal capitalism, but is fully relational. By putting Sayers into dialogue with Alasdair MacIntyre, the book develops a fully Trinitarian theology of work that accounts for the interdependence of human beings, and for the ethical requirements of caring for the weak, the young, and the old in a way that is gender neutral.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 160
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
27 March 2014
Trim Size: 9.02 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9780718893347
Format: Paperback
Christine Fletcher firmly steers her readers into taking very seriously as a theologian and a fighter for social theology someone whom they may know only as an outstandingly good writer of detective fiction in her own era and translator and commentator on Dante's Divine Comedy. ... Reading Fletcher on Sayers and MacIntyre is a refreshing way of engaging with the discrimination of justice in a complex world.
— Ann Loades
This well-argued book ... shows Sayers's views on creativity and work, placed within a Christian context, are as relevant now as they were during her life time - and possibly more so.
— Maggie Hamand
This excellent book prompted me to reflect that it is easy for those of us in ministry, encouraged perhaps by managerialist ecclesiastical bureacracies, to view our own work as a set of outcomes to be achieved and problems to be solved over such issues as numerical growth, money, and buildings. But Sayers provides us with another way of conceiving it: as a work of artistic creativity.
— Reverend Dr Edward Dowler
This text is a significant contribution to scholarship pn Sayers and theological ethics in general and is accesible to all levels of theological study.
— Taylor Worley
— Ann Loades
This well-argued book ... shows Sayers's views on creativity and work, placed within a Christian context, are as relevant now as they were during her life time - and possibly more so.
— Maggie Hamand
This excellent book prompted me to reflect that it is easy for those of us in ministry, encouraged perhaps by managerialist ecclesiastical bureacracies, to view our own work as a set of outcomes to be achieved and problems to be solved over such issues as numerical growth, money, and buildings. But Sayers provides us with another way of conceiving it: as a work of artistic creativity.
— Reverend Dr Edward Dowler
This text is a significant contribution to scholarship pn Sayers and theological ethics in general and is accesible to all levels of theological study.
— Taylor Worley
Foreword
Introduction
1 Sayers' Life and Work
2 Imaginative writing: showing not telling
3 Sayers' Wartime Writing
4 The Artist and the Trinity
5 Good Work
Introduction
1 Sayers' Life and Work
2 Imaginative writing: showing not telling
3 Sayers' Wartime Writing
4 The Artist and the Trinity
5 Good Work