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03283aam a2200433 i 4500 001 A23621DA969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210406010037 008 200727s2020 gau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020015005 020 $a 0881467685 020 $a 9780881467680 035 $a (OCoLC)1182020535 040 $a NcWfSB/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56.H555 $b B76 2020 082 00 $a 813/.509382 $2 23 100 1 $a Brown, Peter C., $d 1942- $e author. 245 10 $a Listening for God : $b Malamud, O'Connor, Updike, & Morrison / $c Peter C. Brown. 264 1 $a Macon, Georgia : $b Mercer University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 255 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "We live in a secular age, where the world and its ways seem to indicate the absence of God. The testimony of ancient and latter-day prophets requires more faith (or credulity) than most of us can manage. Can we still find spiritual truths that will restore a sense of a higher meaning to our lives? For millennia, people have looked to literature, to scriptures, epics, poems, plays, novels, and films for insights into the human condition. In our increasingly rationalized world, some of these contemporary storytellers-like a Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, or Toni Morrison-stretch their art to find new words for the sacred. The God for whom they listen is elusive, a mystery. Their stories and novels are not make-believe accounts of a supernatural Being. They are stories that dig beneath all the ordinary ways we try to justify our lives to uncover in them the traces of a transcending judgment that both exalts and humbles us. Their engrossing stories are not the moral parables or cunning plots they appear on the surface to be. Here, Peter Brown offers a highly interdisciplinary examination of these four authors who represent four different faith traditions within Judeo-Christianity: Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, and syncretistic (blending Africanist creole beliefs with Catholicism). All subversive writers, they write in extraordinary ways to undermine their own stories and open us, their readers, to something more, something that transcends time and fate. The close reading this requires from us is part of the trick-and the pleasure. We will read them to listen for this elusive transcendence, a sacred mystery that rebukes both the atheist's weak humanism and the believer's naive supernaturalism"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Malamud, Bernard. 600 10 $a O'Connor, Flannery. 600 10 $a Updike, John. 600 10 $a Morrison, Toni. 600 17 $a Malamud, Bernard. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00034603 600 17 $a Morrison, Toni. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00062028 600 17 $a O'Connor, Flannery. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00044233 600 17 $a Updike, John. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00031348 650 0 $a Holy, The, in literature. 650 0 $a Holy, The. 650 7 $a Holy, The. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00959050 650 7 $a Holy, The, in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00959055 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406015258.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A23621DA969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search