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"Flannery O'Connor is one of America's most unique Southern authors. Shortly after she began her writing career she was diagnosed with lupus. Despite her illness, O'Connor authored more than two dozen short stories and two novels. Her highly regionalized Southern Gothic stories often involve grotesque characters. Literature critic and theologian Timothy J. Basselin consults O'Connor's life and work to illustrate the profound connections existing between the theme of the grotesque and Christian theology. O'Connor's own disability, Basselin argues, inspired a theology that leads readers toward greater recognition of God's activity in a sinfully grotesque world. By combining disability studies, literary critique, and theological reflection, Basselin discovers a new vision for approaching the disabled, the grotesque, and the other in society. Flannery O'Connor reignites O'Connor's own critiques of the modern affinity for perfection, self-sufficiency, and a clear separation between """"good"""" and """"bad."

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In 'The Regional Writer' Flannery O'Connor states that limitation provides 'a gateway to reality'. Timothy J Basselin's Flannery O'Conner: Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity offers a gateway to understanding how O'Connor's fiction led her to a profound literary vision and theological perspective on the grace and mystery of disability. -- Rosemary M Magee, Vice President & Secretary of Emory University; Director of the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory In a contemporary Christian world that looks too often for 'instant uplift', for easy answers to hard questions, is there any voice more important than Flannery O'Connor's? Her grotesques, so often misunderstood, prophesy against our idols and false gospels. Timothy Basselin is uniquely qualified to show, with remarkable insight and clarity, how the brokenness in O'Connor's fiction points the way to the gospel. -- Jonathan Rogers, author of The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor Basselin takes readers on a revealing and riveting journey into the heart of O'Connor's fiction, where imperfect characters grapple with sin in a fallen world. By plumbing the mysterious depths of O'Connor's grotesques, Basselin points the way to recognising in the faces of suffering humanity the startling visage of Christ and shows how acceptance of suffering opens the floodgates to grace, not just in O'Connor's fiction, but in real life too. -- Dr Lorraine V Murray, author of The Abbess of Andalusia: Flannery O'Connor's Spiritual Journey

Basselin takes readers on a revealing and riveting journey into the heart of O'Connor's fiction, where imperfect characters grapple with sin in a fallen world. By plumbing the mysterious depths of O'Connor's grotesques, Basselin points the way to recognizing in the faces of suffering humanity the startling visage of Christ and shows how acceptance of suffering opens the floodgates to grace, not just in O'Connor's fiction, but in real life too. <br><br><br><br>--Dr. Lorraine V. Murray, author of The Abbess of Andalusia: Flannery O'Connor's Spiritual Journey

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Timothy J. Basselin is Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Worship at Dallas Theological Seminary.

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