Ralph Wood - Branding with the Cross: Flannery O'Connor and the Comedy

Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Ralph Wood, Professor of Theology and Literature, Baylor University
Ralph C. Wood, University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Texas A&M University-Commerce, as well as M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. From 1971-97 he taught on the faculty of Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he was the John Allen Easley Professor of Religion. At Baylor, he teaches in both the Great Texts program and the Department of Religion. He serves as an editor-at-large for the Christian Century and as a member of the editorial board of the Flannery O'Connor Review.
His major book, first published in 1988 and still in print from the University of Notre Dame Press, is entitled The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists (Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, John Updike, and Peter De Vries). He is also the author of Contending for the Faith: The Church's Engagement with Culture (Baylor, 2003); The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth (Westminster John Knox, 2004); and Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South (Eerdmans, 2004).
Sponsored by the Jerusalem and Athens Forum www.gordon.edu/jaf and Center for Christian Studies www.gordon.edu/ccs

[@scottbullard2685]

The foremost Southern Christian interpreter of O'Connor -- and the world's most entertaining interpreter of O'Connor.

[@angelahull9064]

His book "Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South" is gold.

[@NancyBevins]

Thanks Dr. Ralph, glad I found these posts!! Love THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY!!

[@andrewward717]

Thanks for this. This is my third Dr Wood lecture on RUclips. Educational and entertaining. Hope to see more please!

[@Netalies]

Thank you for this upload - most interesting and helpful (I'm writing an essay about O'Connor's writing).

[@elizabethd.838]

I wonder how O’Connor’s writing,from
a Catholic perspective, may have influenced his Baptist (Protestant) understanding of Christ, the sacraments, and of course grace/mercy.