BOOKS AND LETTERS

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FLANNERY O'CONNOR AND DARK FAITH

Giving the Modern World A Proper Scaring

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Scott Postma
Apr 22, 2023
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Having spent a number of weeks writing about the grotesque in art and literature, we’ll now turn to exploring some of its uses in the literature of Christian humanists like C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and naturally, Flannery O’Connor.

Flannery O’Connor, a Self-Portrait

I was not sorry to see the head which had occasioned me so much embarrassment at len…

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