TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Sacramental suffering: the friendship of flannery o’connor and elizabeth hester1
JO  - Modern theology
A1  - Wood, Ralph C.
SP  - 387
EP  - 411
VL  - 24
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0266-7177
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.2008.00464.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -