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In Rallying the Really Human Things, a phrase taken from G. K. Chesterton, Vigen Guroian brings a theologian’s keen perception and insight to the great moral and cultural issues of our day. In particular, Guroian examines and responds to the subversion and enfeeblement of the moral imagination that is happening in all sectors of society, whether family, education, business, or the media.
 
Rallying the Really Human Things: The Cultural Importance of the Moral Imagination in Literature, Politics, and Everyday Life
Guroian masterfully analyzes the degradation of sex, the collapse of courtship, the weakening of marriage, the elevation of economy over all other values, the degradation of education, the threat to our humanity from biotechnology, and the moral failure of politics. He introduces both his own personal experience and the wisdom of great literary, philosophical, and religious voices, such as Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O’Connor, and T. S. Eliot.
 
His overall focus is on a Christian humanism that supports what is really human and is spiritually ennobling. His goal is the reinvigoration of character and virtue in individuals and society, as he strives also to light a way to a fresh Christian vision of culture. Kevin A. Ryan of Boston University, founder of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character at Boston University, has written: “Guroian is a rare and precious bird these days: a scholar of the Real … who focuses his passion and theologian’s mind on some of today’s most smoldering issues.”