Flannery O'Connor and the Vision of Grace
Jennifer Frey
54.23
4 March 2020
18 October 2025
A lecture by Professor Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina)
February 13, 2020
University Club of Chicago
Flannery O’Connor is one of the most celebrated American fiction writers. Yet she has often been misunderstood by the very critics who praise her. O’Connor was sometimes called a hillbilly nihilist, but she responded that she was simply “a hillbilly Thomist.” In this talk, Dr. Frey explores the action of divine grace in the short stories of O’Connor, and how her vision of grace is inspired by the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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