010: Flannery O'Connor's ”Everything That Rises Must Converge” - St. Bernard's
010: Flannery O'Connor's ”Everything That Rises Must Converge”

Nov 30, 2022

Charles, Danny, and Heather discuss Flannery O'Connor's short story "Everything That Rises Must Converge" with an eye to O'Connor's role as a between-the-councils Catholic writer, an ear to the story's portrayal of envy and love, and a dash of Hans Urs von Balthasar to taste.

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01:18Flannery O’Connor and how her short story, Everything that Rises Must Converge, was influenced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
04:50The theological writing style of Flannery O’Connor and an introduction to this story’s characters
27:41Flannery O’Connor’s “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”
45:48Encountering others in light of this story
48:00Next on Particular Good

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