@article{ref1,
title="Sacramental suffering: the friendship of flannery o’connor and elizabeth hester1",
journal="Modern theology",
year="2008",
author="Wood, Ralph C.",
volume="24",
number="3",
pages="387-411",
abstract="As the only orthodox Christian writer the American nation has yet produced, Flannery O’Connor created a remarkable body of fiction rooted in a profoundly sacramental theology. The depth of O’Connor's sacramentalism has recently been revealed with the opening of her remarkable letters to Elizabeth Hester, her most important epistolary friend. Their eleven-year correspondence centers upon two inseparable matters: conversion and suffering. The aim of this essay is to explore how the gift (or refusal) of faith comes through the embrace (or rejection) of a participation in God's own life through a life of sacramental suffering.<p />",
language="",
issn="0266-7177",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-0025.2008.00464.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.2008.00464.x"
}