Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 302 g
Reihe: Lutterworth Press
Further Essays on Art, Faith, and Mystery
Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 302 g
Reihe: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9439-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
An incisive collection of essays by Gregory Wolfe, literary critic and editor of the journal Image, exploring art and faith, aesthetics and spirituality.
The Operation of Grace collects a decade's worth of essays by Gregory Wolfe taken from the pages of Image, the literary journal he founded more than a quarter century ago. As he notes in the preface, his Image editorials, while they cover a wide range of topics, focus on the intersection of "art, faith, and mystery". Wolfe believes that art and religion, while hardly identical, offer illuminating analogies to one another - art deepening faith through the empathetic reach of the imagination and faith anchoring art in a vision beyond the artist's ego. Several essays dwell on how aesthetic values like ambiguity, tragedy, and beauty enlarge our understanding of the spiritual life. There are also a series of reflections that extend Wolfe's campaign to renew the neglected and often misunderstood tradition of Christian humanism. Finally, there are sections that contain more personal meditations arising from Wolfe's involvement in nurturing and promoting the work of emerging writers and artists. The Operation of Grace demonstrates once again why novelist Ron Hansen has spoken of Wolfe as "one of the most incisive and persuasive voices of our generation".
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Preface: A Metaphorical God
PROLOGUE: RETURNING TO THE CAVE
The Cave and the Cathedral
ART SPEAKS TO FAITH
The Wound of Beauty
The Tragic Sense of Life
Singularly Ambiguous
Strange Pilgrims
Secular Scriptures
Shouts and Whispers
Fully Human
FAITH SPEAKS TO ART
Thirty Seconds Away
Religious but Not Spiritual
Current Event
East and West in Miniature
Picturing the Passion
Why the Inklings Aren't Enough
ART AND FAITH IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE
The Culture Wars Revisited
Always Now
Two-Way Traffic
Keeping a Private Address
Conservative Elegies
Poetic Justice
CHRISTIAN HUMANISM: THEN AND NOW
Looking for a Renaissance
Giotto's Ratio
Follies Worldly and Divine
The King's Great Matter. and Ours
Becoming the Other
WORDS AND THE WORD: THE WRITING LIFE
The Humiliation of the Word
Stalking the Spirit
The Operation of Grace
Who's Afraid of Geoffrey Hill?
The Poetry of Exile
SCENES FROM A LITERARY LIFE
The Voice of This Calling
Scenes from an Editorial Life
The Four Cultures
Mugg, Hitch, and Me
Breath
Acknowledgments
