Charitable Writing - Cultivating Virtue through Our Words

Gibson, Richard Hughes/ Beitler, James Edward/ Gere, Anne Ruggles

IVP Academic（2020/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780830854837
• DDC分類 241.4014

Full Description

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Our written words carry weight.
Unfortunately, in today's cultural climate, our writing is too often laced with harsh judgments and vitriol rather than careful consideration and generosity. But might the Christian faith transform how we approach the task of writing? How might we love God and our neighbors through our writing?
This book is not a style guide that teaches you where to place the comma and how to cite your sources (as important as those things are). Rather, it offers a vision for expressing one's faith through writing and for understanding writing itself as a spiritual practice that cultivates virtue.
Under the guidance of two experienced Christian writers who draw on authors and artists throughout the church's history, we learn how we might embrace writing as an act of discipleship for today—and how we might faithfully bear the weight of our written words.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword by Anne Ruggles Gere

Opening Meditation: At the Gallery

Introduction: At the Threshold



Part One: Humble Listening


1. Entering the Study

2. On Humility

3. Humble Listening in Local Writing Communities

4. Humble Listening in Discourse Communities



Part Two: Loving Argument


5. The Law of Charitable Writing

6. On Argument

7. On Charity

8. Charitable Writing as Love's Banquet

9. Beastly Feasting

10. Making Space at the Table



Part Three: Keeping Time Hopefully


11. Slow Writing

12. Liturgies of Writing



Closing Meditation: At the Gallery

Afterword by Alan Jacobs

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Practicing Charitable Writing: Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts

Appendix B: Teaching Charitable Writing: Choosing a Via Nova, by Jeffry C. Davis

Appendix C: Writing as a Spiritual Discipline, by Stephanie Paulsell

Bibliography

General Index

Scripture Index