Tending the Heart of Virtue, Vigen Guroian
Tending the Heart of Virtue, Vigen Guroian
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Tending the Heart of Virtue
How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination, 2nd edition

Author: Vigen Guroian

Narrator: Daniel Thomas May

Unabridged: 9 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/18/2023

Synopsis

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. He demonstrates how these stories challenge and enliven the moral imaginations of children. And he shows the listener how to get "inside" of classic stories and communicate their lessons to the child.

For more than two decades Tending the Heart of Virtue has been embraced by parents, guardians, and teachers for whom the stories it discusses are not only beloved classics but repositories of moral wisdom. This revised and expanded second edition includes three new chapters in which Guroian inteprets such stories as Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, the Grimms' Cinderella, and John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River.

About Vigen Guroian

Until his retirement in 2015, Vigen Guroian was professor of religious studies in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia. He is now a Permanent Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Senior Fellow at the Center on Law and Religion at Emory University, Distinguished Fellow of the John Jay Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum. He also is on the faculty of Memoria College online and is the author of ten books including The Orthodox Reality: Culture, Theology, and Ethics in the Modern World.

Reviews

Goodreads review by ladydusk on July 09, 2013

Own. I really enjoyed this when I was reading it. I've been "in the middle of it" for far too long because it is a dense book (or maybe I'm a dense reader). He packs a lot into each sentence. So I would read some, carry it to a different room and let it set, then read some more, let it set, then read......more

Goodreads review by Sara on September 08, 2017

Without question, one of the most important books I own.......more

Goodreads review by Renee on January 20, 2020

Vigen Guroian, in this book, not only help us to see how our beloved classic children stories were beautifully and prayerfully crafted but makes us want to revisit them as adult, with new eyes. This book does not only give us better understanding but challenges us to read the best book to our childr......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on August 18, 2018

Wonderful book on the power that quality fiction has on the moral formation of children. This has given me many avenues to pursue in reading to the boys (and eventually my daughter... there were a lot of books with morally strong young heroines). I highly recommend this book to parents, those who re......more

Goodreads review by Amelia on January 17, 2025

Excellent read if you are an educator and/or mother or father. I first read parts of the first edition of this book during my senior year of college in a course on children’s literature. We read many of the tales talked about in the book. Reading the second edition in full after having taught classi......more

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