Humour: A signpost virtue for authentic Christian moral conversion
Conversion has been challenged as inauthentic and not easily observable by a number of modern philosophers and contemporary secular humanists. Christianity contends otherwise, discerning moral conversion as a well-turned movement towards God, neighbour, self and world by means of evolving, free pers...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Sage
2013
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Theology
Έτος: 2013, Τόμος: 116, Τεύχος: 4, Σελίδες: 243-253 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Spirituality
B Theological Virtues B theology of humour B Virtue Ethics B Conversion |
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| Παράλληλη έκδοση: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή
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| Σύνοψη: | Conversion has been challenged as inauthentic and not easily observable by a number of modern philosophers and contemporary secular humanists. Christianity contends otherwise, discerning moral conversion as a well-turned movement towards God, neighbour, self and world by means of evolving, free personal choice that unfolds in the narrative of human existence imaginatively and with an awareness of and desire for that which is truly valuable and not merely personally satisfying. Humour or eutrapelia as virtue indispensably establishes the authenticity and attractiveness of conversion, especially when informed by the theological virtues of faith, hope and love. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2696 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X13482852 |