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Program 6:30



Literary scholars contend that no other modern American writer of the twentieth century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation as Flannery O’Connor has created. As a “literary theologian,” O’Connor demonstrated that religion, far from being an impediment to art, may serve as the vital center of the artist’s imagination.

This series will focus on three of her short stories - “Revelation,” “The Displaced Person,” and Parker’s Back.” The recurring theme for this series will be: “What universal themes from the human drama of existence has Flannery O’Connor incarnated in language and what theological statements does she invite us to examine?”

Victor Judge serves as a lecturer at Vanderbilt University Divinity School where he teaches courses on the literary theologians Flannery O’Connor, Albert Camus, John Donne, Emily Dickinson, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. He also serves as the School’s registrar, as editor of the theological magazine The Spire, and as advisor to Marginalia: to the Least of These, a student group dedicated to working the homeless. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from George Peabody College for Teachers and is in the thirtieth year of his vocation in higher education.