Flannery O'Connor and the Church Made Visible: A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the Gospel

by Ralph C. Wood

G. K. Chesterton famously claimed that America is "a nation with the soul of a church." He was wrong. In Flannery O'Connor and the Church Made Visible, Ralph Wood argues that our churches have the soul of a nation because they have come to identify their mission with the American project. They have made the Church (understood as the visible form of Christ himself) virtually invisible.

Wood seeks to restore the Church's visibility by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481321870
• ISBN13: 9781481321877
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.4"