Annotation Front Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication and Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sayers' Life and Work -- 2. Imaginative Writing: Showing not Telling -- 3. Sayers' Wartime Writing -- Anglican Social...
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Annotation Front Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication and Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sayers' Life and Work -- 2. Imaginative Writing: Showing not Telling -- 3. Sayers' Wartime Writing -- Anglican Social Ethics -- 4. The Artist and the Trinity -- Sayers' Anthropology -- 5. Good Work -- Sayers' Ideal Worker, the Artist -- MacIntyre's Concept of a Practice -- Institutions and Managers -- Conclusion: Good Work, Christian Vocation and Social Institutions -- APPENDIX I. The Joint Letter on the Five Peace Points -- APPENDIX II. Christ the Worker a Dogmatic Approach -- Bibliography -- Back Cover. The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artistic creation. Sayers' analogy gives us an account of the person that does not collapse into the atomism of the individual of modern liberal capitalism, but is fully relational. By putting Sayers into dialogue with Alasdair MacIntyre, the book develops a fully Trinitarian theology of work that accounts for the interdependence of human beings, and for the ethical requirements of caring for the weak, the young, and the old in a way that is gender neutral