{"product_id":"the-wounds-of-beauty","title":"The Wounds of Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Margarita Mooney Suarez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Wounds of Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e is host to an immersive symposium on beauty and its relationship to art and education. In these seven dialogues, Margarita Mooney Suarez speaks with: Peter Brown on how beauty shaped Christian civilization in late antiquity; George Harne on the rapport between music and beauty and the latter’s connection to other forms of knowledge; Sister Noëlla Marcellino, O.S.B., on the Benedictine Way and its pattern of authentic living as expressed in chant and cheesemaking; James Matthew Wilson on the imperative of beauty for happiness amidst the post-modern distortion of our capacities for creativity and innovation; David Clayton on the way of beauty as a path to cultural renewal; Francis X. Maier on the origins of the pessimism in contemporary education and on the power of beauty to cure it; and Dana Gioia on creative intuition in poetry and literature and the importance of the arts as the foundation of a thriving culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe encounter with the beautiful can become the wound of the arrow that strikes the heart.\u003c\/em\u003e –Pope Benedict XVI\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFollowing upon the success of \u003ci\u003eThe Love of Learning\u003c\/i\u003e, Mooney Suarez’s initial volume of dialogues on the liberal arts, \u003ci\u003eThe Wounds of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e testifies to the essential place of beauty in the good life and confidently sets before its readers a path toward a more literate and more articulate future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* * *\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargarita Mooney Suarez\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the founder and executive director of Scala Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring meaning and purpose in education through the classical liberal arts. Her writings have appeared in such outlets as \u003ci\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Catholic Register\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlough\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReal Clear Policy\u003c\/i\u003e. She is, most recently, the principal author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-love-of-learning\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Love of Learning: Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Cluny, 2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \u0026amp; E-book:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eE-book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Immediately following purchase, an .epub file and a .mobi (Kindle) file are available for download.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951115\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53100034883951,"sku":"978-1685951115","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"E-book","offer_id":53100034916719,"sku":"978-1685951116","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--673.jpg?v=1781124751","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/the-wounds-of-beauty","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}