Moral Imagination

In Tending the Heart of Virtue, Vigen Guroian illuminates the power of classic tales and their impact on the moral imagination. He demonstrates how these stories teach the virtues through vivid depictions of the struggle between good and evil, while he also unveils components of the good, the true, and the beautiful in plot and character. With clarity and elegance, Guroian reads deeply into the classic stories.

An extraordinary account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination, from the author of Rubicon. “A galloping tour of Christianity’s influence across the last 2,000 years.” —New York Times Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment...

Moral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Animals, Robots, Gods provides a bold new vision of ethics defined less by the individual mind or society and more by our interactions with those around us, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods we believe in, or the machines we endow with life.

In this highly original book, Russell Blackford discusses the intersection of science fiction and humanity’s moral imagination. With the rise of science and technology in the 19th century, and our continually improving understanding of the cosmos, writers and thinkers soon began to imagine futures greatly different from the present. Science fiction was born out of the realization that future techno-scientific advances could dramatically change the world.

The faith-based film industry is booming! But it comes at a cost: faith-based films are a marketable representation of Christianity, not necessarily a biblical one. Created by secular corporations and marketing demographics, such movies often reduce Christianity to fit corporate concerns. But what if, instead of watching Christian movies, we learned to see Christian themes and values in all movies? In this book, you'll learn how movies can awaken our moral imaginations to Christian themes that still pervade our films. And you'll discover how our children can encounter depictions of truth that lead to a life of wisdom and virtue.

Aquai and the Secrets of the Ocean is a book for those looking for inspiring ocean stories for children! These ocean stories for kids follow Aqua, a brave, kind-hearted boy who lives between two worlds—above the surface and below the waves. As he explores the sea, Aqua encounters challenges and learns what’s truly important. Each chapter is filled with friendship, courage, kindness, and adventure, set in magical underwater worlds that kids love. This book is perfect for children ages 6 to 10, and is great for both reading aloud and reading on your own. As one of those rare children's ...

This highly understandable audiobook offers a contemporary interpretation of the political thought of Edmund Burke, drawing on his experiences to illuminate and address fundamental questions of politics and society that are of particular interest today. In Edmund Burke for Our Time, Byrne asserts that Burke's politics is reflective of unique and sophisticated ideas about how people think and learn, and about determinants of political behavior.

Step into the whimsical, charming, and timeless world of Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott, a delightful collection of short stories where nature comes alive with humor, wonder, and gentle wisdom.

Faith tested by feeling. Confessions written in candlelight. In Victorian parlors, convents, and rectories, clergy and believers wrote what they could not speak. The Letters of Devotion reveals the forbidden correspondences of a century that mistook love for prayer—and found mercy in the confusion. The nineteenth century sought salvation—and found temptation in its reflection. The Letters of Devotion gathers the imagined voices of clergy and believers whose faith blurred into feeling, whose prayers became confessions written in secrecy and sealed in restraint. Each letter is an original...

A journey into the unseen emotional world of the Victorian child—where discipline shaped conscience, imagination opened secret doorways, and private feelings survived behind closed doors. This book uncovers the hidden rooms of early life and traces the origins of the modern self. A profoundly intimate history of Victorian childhood—told through the hidden emotional lives of the young. Victorian children left behind more than schoolroom recitations and moral instruction. In their diaries, sketches, bedtime fears, treasured objects, and whispered longings lie the earliest traces of the ...

They crossed oceans, deserts, and the limits of belief. From shipwreck to sanctuary, from marble dust to mountain snow, these women pursued truth until it transformed them. Their journeys became the world’s imagination. Discover the Women Who Turned Exploration into Revelation From the stage to the Himalayas, from the convent to the desert, Women of the World traces a century of travelers, scholars, mystics, and visionaries who transformed experience into conscience. In this final volume of The Women of the Nineteenth Century trilogy, Richard Fleischman follows fifteen extraordinary ...

The Princess and the Magic of Opposites Step into Glimmerwood Forest, where kindness keeps the magic alive. When Princess Aurora Daneen and her friends explore their enchanted home, they discover that everything in the world comes in pairs, light and dark, up and down, big and small, loud and quiet, fast and slow. Through gentle adventures filled with warmth and rhythm, they learn that opposites aren’t enemies… they’re partners that keep the world in balance. Written in a soothing, lyrical style for children aged 2–5, The Princess and the Magic of Opposites helps little ones ...

In Animals, Robots, Gods, acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane provides a new vision of ethics, defined less by our minds, religion or society, and more by our interactions with those around us. Drawing on ground-breaking research by fieldworkers around the world, he explores the underpinnings of our moral universe. Along the way we investigate the ethical dilemmas of South Asian animal rights activists, Balinese cockfighters, Japanese robot fanciers -- even macho cowboys. 

What happens when a child looks at the world with wonder, science, poetry, and a deeply human soul? A visionary is born. The Child Visionary: Journeys of Imagination, Science, and the Soul is a luminous literary voyage that blends childhood innocence with scientific curiosity, ethical reflection, and poetic beauty. Through stories, essays, and lyrical narratives, Jaime Bedoya Martínez invites readers to rediscover the universe through the eyes of a child who dreams, questions, observes, and believes. This book travels effortlessly between oceans and stars, games and galaxies, poetry and ...

A meditation on how lives endure through the things they leave behind: letters never sent, portraits fading in their frames, and the quiet eloquence of remembrance. Letters and Objects: Essays on Memory, Objects, and the Margins of History In an age captivated by progress, the nineteenth century turned instead toward remembrance. Through its letters, keepsakes, and portraits, it sought to preserve the fragile substance of feeling, to rescue the self from silence. Letters and Objects opens The Library of Quiet Things, a series devoted to the moral imagination of history and to the tender ...

Scarlet was three years old when her parents gave her Twinkle, a pink, dazzling elephant. She knew they were going to be best friends the minute she held her in her arms. As young as Scarlet is, she has such a beautiful, wide imagination, which she often let’s run free. She is also the adventurous kind. There are lots of fun moments of her and her best friend, Twinkle. They have so much fun going in the treehouse, going to the park together, and everywhere! Scarlet takes Twinkle with her everywhere she goes. The two make an incredible, adorable pair, and Scarlet believes she can get ...

A story about a little dog with the heart of a lion. From the bestselling author of a ‘A Dog Called Homeless’. Leo dreams about being a hero. In his imagination he is a fearsome gladiator, but he wants to be a hero in real life. When the boys at school dare Leo to do something he knows is...