Wynn, MR (2021) Comparing Empirical and Theological Perspectives on the Relationship Between Hope and Aesthetic Experience: An Approach to the Nature of Spiritual Well-Being. In: Lee, MT, Kubzanzsky, LD and VanderWeele, TJ, (eds.) Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Oxford University Press , New York, NY, USA ISBN 9780197512531
Abstract
While hope and the experience of beauty both have a claim to be key constituents of the spiritual life, it is not obvious that there is any deep-seated connection between them. In this chapter, the author examines three ways of developing the idea that there is some such association. He draws on empirically informed as well as theological perspectives, and, on this basis, he addresses a further question concerning the respective contributions of different kinds of enquiry to our understanding of spiritual well-being. The discussion is concerned with the relationship between two dimensions of spiritual well-being: openness to aesthetic experience, and hope understood as a trait of character. For the most part, the experience of beauty in particular will provide the focus, although on occasion the interest will be in aesthetic experience more generally.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Oxford University Press 2021. This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), a copy of which is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. |
Keywords: | well-being, spiritual, beauty, hope, Thomas Aquinas, William James, Rhett Diessner |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number John Templeton Foundation (US) ID# 57313 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2020 15:06 |
Last Modified: | 17 May 2023 10:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/oso/9780197512531.003.0012 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155386 |