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The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor

The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor

Rogers, Justin M.

Paperback

Religious BiographiesReligion General Ancient Rome

ISBN10: 1595550232
ISBN13: 9781595550231
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: Sep 17 2012
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.

--Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor's work has been described as profane, blasphemous, and outrageous. Her stories are peopled by a sordid caravan of murderers and thieves, prostitutes and bigots whose lives are punctuated by horror and sudden violence. But perhaps the most shocking thing about Flannery O'Connor's fiction is the fact that it is shaped by a thoroughly Christian vision. If the world she depicts is dark and terrifying, it is also the place where grace makes itself known. Her world--our world--is the stage whereon the divine comedy plays out; the freakishness and violence in O'Connor's stories, so often mistaken for a kind of misanthropy or even nihilism, turn out to be a call to mercy.

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