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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wood, Ralph C. Comedy of redemption. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1988 (OCoLC)573359579 |
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| Named Person: | Walker Percy; Flannery O'Connor; Peter De Vries; John Updike; Karl Barth; Karl Barth; Walker Percy; John Updike; Flannery O'Connor; Peter De Vries |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ralph C Wood |
| ISBN: | 0268007675 9780268007676 0268007861 9780268007867 |
| OCLC Number: | 17548416 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiii, 310 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Reinhold Niebuhr and the tragic vision -- Comic vision and the Christian faith -- Karl Barth as a theologian of the divine comedy -- Barth's evangelical theology of culture -- Flannery O'Connor as a satirist of the negative way -- Flannery O'Connor as a comedian of positive grace -- Walker Percy as catholic existentialist -- Percy as the satirist satirized : The moviegoer -- John Updike as an ironist of the spiritual life -- The strange moral process of Harry ("Rabbit") Angstrom -- Peter De Vries as a humorist of backslidden unbelief -- The comedy of unconditional election and irresistible grace -- Conclusion : how comic vision serves the church and the world. |
| Responsibility: | Ralph C. Wood. |
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