A subversive gospel : Flannery O'Connor and the reimagining of beauty, goodness, and truth /

In this latest volume in IVP Academic's Studies in Theology and the Arts series, theologian Michael Mears Bruner explores O'Connor's theological aesthetic and argues that she reveals what discipleship to Christ entails by subverting the traditional understandings of beauty, goodness a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruner, Michael Mears, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2017]
Series:Studies in theology and the arts.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A medieval modern
  • The baron: O'Connor's theological turn
  • The liminal frame: O'Connor's moral vision
  • Artistic habitus: O'Connor's dramatic vision
  • The subverted transcendentals in selected short stories
  • The violent bear it away: a case study in subversion
  • Conclusion: O'Connor's cathedral of fire
  • Addendum: Literature as liturgy.