Good News Resounding (eBook)

Essays on Literature and Theology in Honor of Ralph C. Wood

Rachel Toombs (Herausgeber)

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2025
206 Seiten
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4813-2079-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Ralph C. Wood’s teaching and writing career over fifty years helped readers and students be attentive to the way literature renders the theologically abstract concretely. Wood has modeled serious theological engagement and robust literary reflection in his writing on G. K. Chesterton, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Flannery O’Connor, among others. His books have shaped current and future generations of literary critics and theologians alike.
 
Not as easily measured, Wood formed generations of undergraduate and graduate students in candid, sometimes brash, often comedic, and always critical engagements with theology and the arts. Avoiding what Flannery O’Connor deemed the two great follies of theologically oriented literature in the forms of pornography and sentimentality, Wood draws out theological themes without watering down the reality of suffering or the costly nature of the gospel.  Good News Resounding honors Wood’s contribution by continuing to follow in his footsteps, reflecting theologically on literature to draw out the very Good News of the gospel amidst very real suffering, evil, and sin.
 
The collection assembles a diverse group of scholars--former students, colleagues, and friends of Wood--to demonstrate the multivalent approaches to and richness of reading literature theologically. Written for academically inclined readers of theology and the arts,  Good News Resounding extends Wood’s legacy and testifies to the power of the classroom to shape future generations of readers, theologians, and Christians.

Autor

Rachel Toombs is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

Inhalt

Introduction
Rachel Toombs

For Ralph Wood
Malcolm Guite

1 Dante’s Holy Tears: Hope, Compassion, and Conformity to God in the Comedy’s School of Weeping
Matthew Rothaus Moser
2 The Biblical and Pastoral Imagination of George MacDonald: The Meaning of Death in Lilith
Gisela H. Kreglinger
3 The Long Defeat
Barry Harvey
4 "I am Christ’s back": Alienation, Necessity, and Exchange in Charles Williams’ Drama
Rowan Williams
5 Freeing the Waters: Art and Sacrament in David Jones
Paul S. Fiddes
6 The High Cost of Good Readers: Possibility, Responsibility, and the Christian Moral Imagination in Flannery O’Connor’s Theory of Fiction
Jordan Rowan Fannin
7 Flannery O’Connor’s Prophets Are Not Fundamentalists
John Sykes
8 Under Every Green Tree? Flannery O’Connor, Caroline Gordon, and "Parker’s Back"
Rachel Toombs
9 The Power of the St. Thérèse’s "Little Way" in Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins
Jessica Hooten Wilson
10 Knoxville, Summer 2022
Pete Candler

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2025
• Verlagsort: Waco
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Ralph Wood, Literature and Theology, Literature & Theology, Arts and Theology
• ISBN-10: 1-4813-2079-3 / 1481320793
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4813-2079-5 / 9781481320795