Title
The Beautiful Game: Soccer's Theological Virtues
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Commonweal
Publication Date
2016
School
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of Theology
Abstract
In “A Perfect Game,” his August 2010 essay in First Things, the Orthodox theologian and scholar David Bentley Hart argues that the sports we play and watch, in addition to being entertaining, also offer an aesthetic interpretation of reality—a way of enjoying the world, being in it, and seeing it. Sport orients the human vision to the transcendent; it bears an essentially metaphysical or religious content.
Recommended Citation
Flipper, Joseph, "The Beautiful Game: Soccer's Theological Virtues" (2016). Theology Faculty Publications and Presentations. 9.
https://scholarworks.bellarmine.edu/theology_fac_pubs/9
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