Theology, Arts, and Moral Formation
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2020) | Viewed by 15244
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The articles in this Special Issue explore the possibilities and challenges for moral formation and education offered by research, scholarship, and practices involved in the academic study of theology and arts. Many of the seminal works fueling the surge in interest in theology and arts over the last two decades refer to important points of overlap with educational and moral formation (especially the virtues). The authors included in this issue seek, from different angles and different types of engagement with both theology and art, to focus on what this interdisciplinary study can learn from and contribute to issues of moral formation and education.
This issue focuses on the interrelation of 1) the study and practice of theology and arts and 2) moral formation in educational contexts—including concerns for establishing and cultivating moral imagination. The focus of the articles can be as tight as the explication and analysis of specific pedagogical or formational programs that draw from the study of theology and arts or as wide as the exploration of the larger philosophical and ethical fittingness of such approaches.
The scope will range from very practical concerns with educational design and practice in religious and educational contexts to the intersection of theology and arts and virtues ethics in academic research involving educational and moral formation.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to engage directly with a common but under-developed element of the last two decades of dialogue surrounding theology and arts. Since the articles compiled here are attuned to the many points of resonance among these interdisciplinary concerns, this Special Issue of Religions seeks to present several intriguing approaches to the topic and to encourage and cultivate more research, discussion, and performance of the morally and educationally formative potential of theology and arts.
This issue highlights aspects of the theology and arts discussion raised in numerous works by Jeremy Begbie, Mako Fujimora, Ralph Wood, Graham Ward, and many others—including conversations outside of higher education academia such as those centered around rigorous Classical Christian education. While these authors and others usually consider the consequences of theology and arts for moral and educational formation in the context of broader concerns for culture – both within pluralist civic/political life and various Christian communities or cultures – this issue will contribute to the literature by focusing on the related and essential, but narrower, context of moral formation within practical educational contexts (such as the curricula of schools or churches) as well as the ongoing academic study of theology and arts.
Dr. David M. Wilmington
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- theology and arts
- moral formation
- education
- virtues ethics
- arts and moral imagination
- theological imagination
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