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A Subversive Gospel : Flannery o'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Theology and the Arts SeriesPublisher: Westmont : InterVarsity Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (331 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780830890361
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Subversive GospelLOC classification:
  • PS3565.C57.B786 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Excursuses -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Medieval Modern -- 1 The Baron: O'Connor's Theological Turn -- 2 The Liminal Frame: O'Connor's Moral Vision -- 3 Artistic Habitus: O'Connor's Dramatic Vision -- 4 The Subverted Transcendentals in Selected Short Stories -- 5 The Violent Bear It Away: A Case Study in Subversion -- Conclusion: O'Connor's Cathedral of Fire -- Addendum: Literature as Liturgy -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Scripture Index -- Studies in Theology and the Arts -- Notes -- Praise for A Subversive Gospel -- About the Author -- More Titles from InterVarsity Press -- Copyright.
Summary: The good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act. Exploring the theological aesthetic of American author Flannery O'Connor, Michael Bruner argues that her fiction reveals what discipleship to Jesus Christ entails by subverting the traditional understandings of beauty, truth, and goodness.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Excursuses -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Medieval Modern -- 1 The Baron: O'Connor's Theological Turn -- 2 The Liminal Frame: O'Connor's Moral Vision -- 3 Artistic Habitus: O'Connor's Dramatic Vision -- 4 The Subverted Transcendentals in Selected Short Stories -- 5 The Violent Bear It Away: A Case Study in Subversion -- Conclusion: O'Connor's Cathedral of Fire -- Addendum: Literature as Liturgy -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Scripture Index -- Studies in Theology and the Arts -- Notes -- Praise for A Subversive Gospel -- About the Author -- More Titles from InterVarsity Press -- Copyright.

The good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act. Exploring the theological aesthetic of American author Flannery O'Connor, Michael Bruner argues that her fiction reveals what discipleship to Jesus Christ entails by subverting the traditional understandings of beauty, truth, and goodness.

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