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Flannery O'Connor was concerned, above all, with man's wholeness and the ways in which that wholeness is broken and possibly restored. Since these subjects are central to so much of modern theology, her religious concerns often parallel those of such influential modern theologians and religious philosophers as Kierkegaard, Maritain, Tillich, Niebuhr, Guardini, and D'Arcy. But the fiction writer is more interested in individuals, even if representative ones, than in mankind in the abstract; and Miss O'Connor's characters are as interesting to the clinical psychologist as to the theologian. In her works spiritual wholeness and incompleteness manifest themselves as neurosis and sanity. And since the spiritually alienated and neurotic characters express themselves in social gestures, Miss O'Connor also presents them in terms of important problems in human relationships, of the destructive idolatry of progress, the dehumanization of urban collectives, and the reduction of other people to objects in compulsive social rituals. The humanistic approach of this study shows how Miss O'Connor integrates many perspectives on man's nature. She may fuse a religious allegory with a Freudian case s

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Author

Eggenschwiler, David, 1936-

Publisher

Wayne State University Press, 1972.

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814314630

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Literary Fiction, Christian

Updated

2026-03-24