Table of Contents

Introduction: The Art of Fashioning the Soul
Part 1: Orthodoxy: Forming Right Belief
1. Who Is Jesus, and How Does He Save Us? The Strange and Beautiful Face of Jesus in Icons
2. What Is Creation, and What Is Our Place in It? Webs of Wonder in Bestiaries
Part 2: Orthopraxy: Forming Right Practice
3. How Should We Worship? A Geography for the Soul: A Tour of Chartres Cathedral
4. How Should We Read Scripture? Entering the World of the Word with Ignatian Prayer
Part 3: Orthopathy: Forming Moral Character
5. How Do We Avoid Evil? Dante's Mirror for the Soul: Unveiling the Ugliness of Sin
6. How Do We Become Good? The Art of Virtue: Imitating the Lady Virtues
Conclusion

About the Author

Lanta Davis (PhD, Baylor University) is professor of humanities and literature in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. She was named the IWU Outstanding Scholar of the Year for 2020 and was a Fulbright Scholar at Queen's University, Belfast. Her work on the Christian imagination and formation has appeared in Christianity Today, the Christian Century, Smithsonian Magazine, Plough, and Christ and Pop Culture.