This essay describes Impresiones provinciales, José Jiménez Lozano’s seventh ‘dietario’, as attentive to the everyday life of the human person and concerned with the lack of spiritual health in the contemporary world. Despite the bleak panorama, Jiménez Lozano suggests that hope and mercy are still possible thanks to a simple beauty linked to the liturgy and poetry of our daily lives. Once beauty breaks through the heartless shell we hide inside, we are free to express charity as compassion. While the humanitarian corpus of this author can be characterized as drawing on the Catholic church’s teachings on morality and human dignity, as a literary artist Jiménez Lozano is committed to the expression of beauty in a theologically-inflected but solidly interfaith context, as part of his restoration of the ideal of mercy. This article addresses his conviction that the artist must be countercultural; his lament for the beautiful and the notion of the human person as possessing a soul; his exposition of practical lessons from monasticism; his confidence in the value of reading and conversation; and his faith in beauty as the mechanism that cuts through our layers of isolation and allows us to relate to each other mercifully.

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何塞·希门尼斯·洛萨诺（José Jiménez Lozano）的《省内印象》中的美丽与慈悲

这篇文章描述了何塞·希门尼斯·洛萨诺 (José Jiménez Lozano) 的第七部“省会印象”(Impresiones Provincees)，他关注人类的日常生活，关注当代世界缺乏精神健康。尽管前景黯淡，但 Jiménez Lozano 表示，希望和怜悯仍然是可能的，这要归功于与我们日常生活中的礼仪和诗歌相关的简单美。一旦美丽突破了我们隐藏在里面的无情外壳，我们就可以自由地将慈善表达为同情。虽然作者的人道主义语料库可以描述为借鉴了天主教会关于道德和人类尊严的教义，但作为文学艺术家，Jiménez Lozano 致力于在受神学影响但坚定的跨信仰背景下表达美，作为他的一部分恢复仁慈的理想。这篇文章表达了他的信念，即艺术家必须是反文化的；他为美丽和人类拥有灵魂的观念而悲叹；他对修道实践经验的阐述；他对阅读和交谈的价值充满信心；以及他对美的信仰，它是一种机制，可以打破我们的隔离层，让我们能够仁慈地相互联系。