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Friday, August 11, 2006
Flannery O'Connor
Credenda - Thema ~ Who's Afraid of Flannery O'Connor (audio) or (text) by Douglas Jones
The Jones article was a bit confused, "regarding "dark grace" and evil. If evil is a mystery it is so for one of two reasons: 1. the permissive will of God which affords us certain sufferings; 2. the mystery of human freedom which can negate itself in saying no to God.
Jones is a superficial reader of Walker Percy, saying that "In Percy's Lancelot, for example, there's no doubt that Percy loathes his protagonist from beginning to end." No, absolutely not. Percy agreed with Lancelot to a great degree about his diagnosis of the modern world, especially as in the essays found in "The Message in a Bottle" (in this, Lancelot is quite like Sutter Vaught).
Percy diverges sharply with Lancelot and Sutter in what to do about things in the world, offering a minimal, weak response, yet powerful in its embrace of true freedom in Christ.
Yes. O'Connor disturbs me, not because she lampoons the nice, but because she lampoons me with her piercing wit - cutting my attachment to sentimental visions that I have of myself.
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The Jones article was a bit confused, "regarding "dark grace" and evil. If evil is a mystery it is so for one of two reasons: 1. the permissive will of God which affords us certain sufferings; 2. the mystery of human freedom which can negate itself in saying no to God.
Jones is a superficial reader of Walker Percy, saying that "In Percy's Lancelot, for example, there's no doubt that Percy loathes his protagonist from beginning to end." No, absolutely not. Percy agreed with Lancelot to a great degree about his diagnosis of the modern world, especially as in the essays found in "The Message in a Bottle" (in this, Lancelot is quite like Sutter Vaught).
Percy diverges sharply with Lancelot and Sutter in what to do about things in the world, offering a minimal, weak response, yet powerful in its embrace of true freedom in Christ.
Yes. O'Connor disturbs me, not because she lampoons the nice, but because she lampoons me with her piercing wit - cutting my attachment to sentimental visions that I have of myself.
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