Flannery O'Connor and the Christian Intellectual Tradition | Prof. Ralph Wood

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This talk was given at Texas A&M University on November 9, 2020.

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About the speaker: Ralph C. Wood has served as University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor since 1998. He holds the B.A. and M.A. from East Texas State College (now Texas A&M University-Commerce) as well as the A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. From 1971-1997 he taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he was the John Allen Easley Professor of Religion from 1990. At Baylor, he has a graduate appointment in Religion, though he teaches entirely in the Great Texts program. He serves as an editorial board member for both the Flannery O’Connor Review and Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review. He has also taught at Providence College in Rhode Island, at Samford University in Birmingham, and at Regent College in Vancouver.

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0:11.3	Can we begin with prayer, please?
0:13.7	In name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
0:15.7	I know.
0:20.2	Let the words of my mouth and meditation of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, our rock, and our Redeemer.
0:29.4	Amen.
0:31.8	I think I'll pause and let the group ask me some questions before I lecture.
0:37.3	Is that okay? So questions about
0:40.7	Flannery O'Connor, the woman, the person? Gosh, there are thousands of things to say.
0:53.7	A couple of things just about her illness O'Connor never
0:58.5	complained O'Connor never said why me her best say one of the last
1:09.0	letters are really is a kind of almost complaint she
1:12.1	writes to her bed she loves the southern dialect of white trash speech and so she
1:16.8	would say pray that the lupus don't finish me off too quick but to me the most
1:25.9	poignant of all her sayings is this.
1:30.2	I can take it, meaning what she knew would be her early death.
1:37.3	I can take it all as a blessing with one eye sweaty.
1:51.9	Yeah, yeah, I guess so. Do you hear that balance? Radical faith and radical doubt. I tell my students, those go together. Lord, I believe, help my unbelieve.
1:57.7	She says the profoundest prayer in New Testament. So the more you learn about
2:03.2	her, the more your life will be changed for the better. I might point out right from the start.
2:15.2	You can turn that out off if you'd like.
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