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Episode 12 – Flannery O’Conner and a Christian Reading of American Literature

July 22, 2020 Johanna Hartelius You're Not Accepted Comments Off on Episode 12 – Flannery O’Conner and a Christian Reading of American Literature

“Moralistic liberalism and individual pietism are mirror evils that have made the church understood as the distinctive Body of Christ virtually invisible in America.” In this episode, the podcast posse discusses an essay Stanley wrote with Ralph Wood, “How the Church became Invisible: A Christian Reading of American Literature,” along with Flannery O’ Connor’s short story “The Displaced Person.”

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Dr. Johanna Hartelius is Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Expertise (Lexington, 2011) and the forthcoming book The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons (University of California Press, 2020). When she's not explaining to Crackers and Grape Juice that rhetoric means something other than ornamentation and lies, she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes and tries to raise two little humans. Johanna is the host of You're Not Accepted.