Dark faith [electronic resource] : new essays on Flannery O'Connor's The violent bear it away / edited by Susan Srigley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dark night, dark faith : Hazel Motes, the Misfit, and Francis Marion Tarwater / Richard Giannone -- The lost childhood of George Rayber / John F. Desmond -- "Not his son" : violent kinship and the spirit of adoption in The violent bear it away / Gary M. Ciuba -- Abstraction and Intimacy in Flannery O'Connor's The violent bear it away / Jason Peters -- Transfiguring affliction : Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor / Ruthann Knechel Johansen -- Only love overcomes violence : The violent bear it away as case studies in theological ethics / Scott Huelin -- "Jesus is the Bread of Life" : Johannine sign and deed in The violent bear It away / P. Travis Kroeker -- Suffering violence in the kingdom of heaven : The violent bear it away / Karl E. Martin -- Asceticism and abundance : the communion of saints in The violent bear it away / Susan Srigley.

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