
The Operation of Grace
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"Greg Wolfe has done something remarkable for both the Christian community and the fractured, fractious culture we inhabit in the North Atlantic world. These essays amply show how a theologically informed perspective can generate a serious, adult, joyful inhabiting of creation."Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
"Each of these essays is an invocation - an act of summoning, a preparation for transfigurations yet to come."
Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"It's tempting to read Greg Wolfe as a voice speaking to us from an earlier age, when faith and culture were not antagonists, but two sides to the same coin. This would be a mistake: the humane, intelligent essays in The Operation of Grace exist to remind us that that time isn't past at all."
Christopher Beha, author of What Happened to Sophie Wilder
"These occasional pieces in fact add up to a marvellous whole - an erudite, provocative whole, at times winsome and at times bracing. They are, in short, a gift."
Lauren F. Winner, author of Girl Meets God
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PROLOGUE: RETURNING TO THE CAVE
The Cave and the Cathedral
ART SPEAKS TO FAITH
The Wound of Beauty
The Tragic Sense of Life
Singularly Ambiguous
Strange Pilgrims
Secular Scriptures
Shouts and Whispers
Fully Human
FAITH SPEAKS TO ART
Thirty Seconds Away
Religious but Not Spiritual
Current Event
East and West in Miniature
Picturing the Passion
Why the Inklings Aren't Enough
ART AND FAITH IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE
The Culture Wars Revisited
Always Now
Two-Way Traffic
Keeping a Private Address
Conservative Elegies
Poetic Justice
CHRISTIAN HUMANISM: THEN AND NOW
Looking for a Renaissance
Giotto's Ratio
Follies Worldly and Divine
The King's Great Matter ... and Ours
Becoming the Other
WORDS AND THE WORD: THE WRITING LIFE
The Humiliation of the Word
Stalking the Spirit
The Operation of Grace
Who's Afraid of Geoffrey Hill?
The Poetry of Exile
SCENES FROM A LITERARY LIFE
The Voice of This Calling
Scenes from an Editorial Life
The Four Cultures
Mugg, Hitch, and Me
Breath
Acknowledgments
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