Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Certainly one of them …

Flannery O’Connor was ‘possibly the most theologically alert writer of the 20th century’.

A tendency she perceived in Catholicism of demanding instant answers exasperated her. To her, faith was a “walking in darkness” rather than a theological explanation of mystery. As a result of her long battle with sickness she knew about suffering and sorrow, and an awareness of possible early death gave urgency to her tone.

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