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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".

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Gregory Wolfe is editor of Image, one of America's leading quarterly journals. He serves as Writer in Residence and Director of the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program at Seattle Pacific University. Wolfe's books include Beauty Will Save the World, Intruding upon the Timeless, Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography, and Sacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel. He has served as a judge for the National Book Awards.

Review :
"Greg Wolfe has done something remarkable for both the Christian community and the fractured, fractious culture we inhabit in the North Atlantic world. These essays amply show how a theologically informed perspective can generate a serious, adult, joyful inhabiting of creation." Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury "Each of these essays is an invocation - an act of summoning, a preparation for transfigurations yet to come." Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "It's tempting to read Greg Wolfe as a voice speaking to us from an earlier age, when faith and culture were not antagonists, but two sides to the same coin. This would be a mistake: the humane, intelligent essays in The Operation of Grace exist to remind us that that time isn't past at all." Christopher Beha, author of What Happened to Sophie Wilder "These occasional pieces in fact add up to a marvellous whole - an erudite, provocative whole, at times winsome and at times bracing. They are, in short, a gift." Lauren F. Winner, author of Girl Meets God


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780718894399
  • Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Lutterworth Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 220
  • Weight: 332 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0718894391
  • Publisher Date: 29 Dec 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Further Essays on Art, Faith, and Mystery
  • Width: 153 mm


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