Hillbilly Thomism Flannery O'Connor's Vision Of Grace | Prof. Jennifer Frey

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This lecture was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 5th, 2020.

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About the speaker:

Jennifer A. Frey (University of South Carolina) received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer's research interests lie at the intersection of virtue ethics and action theory. She has publications in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Journal of Analytic Philosophy, and in several edited volumes. She is the recipient of several grants, including a $2.1 million project awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, titled "Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning in Life." She is currently at work on three separate book projects.

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0:00.0	The title of my lecture this evening is Hillbilly-Tomism, Flannery O'Connor's Vision of Grace.
0:10.0	And I would like to dedicate this talk to the memory of my friend and fellow fan of Ms. O'Connor, Father Paul Mankowski, S.J.
0:20.0	My talk is broken up into three sections. The first section of my
0:24.2	talk is just a bit of biographical background on Flannery O'Connor. The second part of my talk is
0:31.1	about her specific vision of grace. And in the third part of the talk, I'm going to go through with you one of her famous short stories
0:40.9	so we can see that vision of grace as it is exemplified in her writings.
0:47.0	Okay, so Section 1, Her Life.
0:49.8	Mary Flannery O'Connor was born on March 25, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia, right in the heart
0:56.5	of the city's Irish Catholic enclave, and a hospital run by the Sisters of Mercy.
1:02.3	Mary Flannery was the precocious, intense, quirky, and artistically gifted child to Regina
1:07.3	and Edward O'Connor.
1:09.7	Little Mary was painfully shy and antisocial,
1:12.7	but she enjoyed a rich interior life,
1:15.5	which she brought to life in her drawings and her stories,
1:18.8	even as a young girl.
1:20.9	She was educated by the strict and pious nuns
1:23.5	at St. Vincent's Grammar School,
1:25.7	but she was not a very good student,
1:27.4	and she was certainly not beloved by the nuns. While's Grammar School, but she was not a very good student, and she was
1:27.8	certainly not beloved by the nuns. While a devout Catholic, she abhorred
1:32.3	traditional displays of piety and spoke disdainfully of nun-inspired doings. In 1937, when
1:40.5	she was only 12, her father, with whom she was especially close, was diagnosed with lupus.
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