none 10.5840/jsce2019102416 Philosophy Documentation Center Philosophy Documentation Center 3884 110963657 329793 2013 10.5840 2020-05-19T15:07:58Z 2019-10-25T01:03:19Z 1 Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 1540-7942 jsce 2019 39 2 Beauty and the Christian Moral Life David Bentley Hart Philosophy Documentation Center This essay addresses the alienation of aesthetics from ethics in the context of modernity. In examining the modern development of moral theory, it offers a critique of the dominant trends within that tradition, arguing that the result is a fragmented and disordered conception of the good life. Christian ethics, grounded in a conception of the beauty of God’s being as a disclosure of the true good, can reaffirm the connection between ethics and aesthetics, that beauty is not simply a matter of inward reflection but also of action toward the world, which gives content to moral life. Christian ethics ultimately requires a “sense of style” through which we are attracted to a life lived in imitation of Christ, and through which our conceptions of virtue are grounded in a desire to act in such a way as to manifest God’s beauty before the world. 2019 237 250 jsce_2019_0039_0002_0237_0250 10.5840/PDC20121120 pdcnet.org true NO 10.5840/jsce2019102416 http://www.pdcnet.org/oom/service?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=&rft.imuse_id=jsce_2019_0039_0002_0237_0250&svc_id=info:www.pdcnet.org/collection https://muse.jhu.edu/article/741519