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Ralph C. Wood
G.K. Chesterton famously claimed that America is ""a nation with the soul of a church."" He was wrong. In this book, Ralph Wood argues that our churches have the soul…
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Shows how O'Connor’s stories, novels, and essays impinge on America’s cultural and ecclesial condition. The author uses O'Connor’s work as a window onto its own regional and religious ethos. He…
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Calls for churches to offer a sustained an unapologetically Christian witness to a postmodern world. Ralph Wood carefully chronicles how the church is watching the complete destruction of post-Christian institutions…
G.K. Chesterton is often praised as the 'Great Optimist' - God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavour, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal…
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Essays place modern writers and modern quandaries in lively engagement with the broad range of Tolkien’s work, focusing on The Lord of the Rings.
Testifies to the presence of God as both our post-earthly hope and our present-world existence. / These thought-provoking sermons by Ralph Wood, a layman who has taught religion and literature…
Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age–absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter…
A highly engaging essay on the major concerns and questions regarding literature and theology.
Ralph C. Wood's teaching and writing career over fifty years helped readers and students be attentive to the way literature renders the theologically abstract concretely. Wood has modeled serious theological…
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Balancing theology with literary criticism, this work explores the comic vision in the works of four American novelists, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, John Updike and Peter De Vries.
This book illuminates the connectedness of Dostoevsky’s literary art with his philosophical and psychological brilliance. Two Fyodor Dostoevsky conferences originating at the University of North Texas set the stage for…
