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Flannery O’Connor was a remarkable writer, who was born and passed her short life in the state of Georgia, a region beset by its “Southern Gothic” heritage, a history of slavery and passionate division, from which her own particular vision. with its Catholic undercurrents, springs. Her own religion gave her a distanced view of the peculiar culture around her.
For the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Flannery O’Connor, which fell on March 25 this year, I wrote about her enduring legacy, inspired by a conversation with Fr Damian Ference – the Vicar for Evangelisation of the Diocese of Cleveland, a Flannery O’Connor scholar and author of Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist (Word on Fire, US€25.00 / €21.50).
Anyone familiar with that book, his podcast appearances, or even just a casual conversation with him, knows what an insightful and passionate reader he is. It’s fair to say he filled my mind with new thoughts.
That earlier book, Fr Ference made clear, grew out of his doctoral work exploring how the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas, whom O’Connor greatly admired, shaped the structure and substance of her fiction.
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For the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Flannery O’Connor, which fell on March 25 this year, I wrote about her enduring legacy, inspired by a conversation with Fr Damian Ference – the Vicar for Evangelisation of the Diocese of Cleveland, a Flannery O’Connor scholar and author of Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist (Word on Fire, US€25.00 / €21.50).
Anyone familiar with that book, his podcast appearances, or even just a casual conversation with him, knows what an insightful and passionate reader he is. It’s fair to say he filled my mind with new thoughts.
That earlier book, Fr Ference made clear, grew out of his doctoral work exploring how the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas, whom O’Connor greatly admired, shaped the structure and substance of her fiction.
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Flannery O’Connor’s ‘terrifying’ vision of modernity
No One Was Paying Any Attention to the Sky: Flannery O’Connor and Modernity,by Damian Ference(Wiseblood books, US$11.00 / €9.50)Flannery O’Connor was a remarkable writer, who was born a
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