About the Book
Dig into the rich tradition of Catholic literature with these significant and influential books recommended by Bishop Barron. These titles have transformed cultures and have proven indispensable to those seeking to encounter God, as revealed in Jesus Christ through His Church.
The books are each elegantly bound and include a ribbon bookmark and a foreword and charcoal sketch of the book's author by Bishop Barron!
You will not only enrich your life with these works, you'll be proud to display these gorgeous editions in your home or office.
"As becomes unmistakably clear as you read through this collection, Flannery O’Connor was not only a masterful teller of tales; she was also one of the most perceptive literary theorists of the twentieth century. She once famously defined herself as a “hillbilly Thomist,” and the aesthetics of St. Thomas Aquinas do indeed inform the way she thought about her own work. "
- Bishop Barron
Contents
Short Story The Peeler
Letter On Being a “Hillbilly Thomist”
Letter On St. Thomas Aquinas
Essay Novelist and Believer
Part Two
Short Story A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Letter On “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and
the Incarnation
Letter On Truth and Emotion
Essay A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable
Part Three
Short Story The Displaced Person
Letter On Literature and Poetry
Letter On Her Peafowl
Essay King of the Birds
Part Four
Short Story A Temple of the Holy Ghost
Letter On “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” and
the Eucharist
Letter On Church Teaching
Essay The Church and the Fiction Writer
Part Five
Short Story Good Country People
Letter On Atheists and Protestants
Letter On Nihilism and Her Literary Influences
Essay Some Aspects of the Grotesque in
Southern Fiction
Part Six
Novel The Violent Bear It Away
Letter On the Devil and the Offer of Grace
Letter On Tarwater and the Violent
Essay The Regional Writer
Part Seven
Short Story Everything That Rises Must Converge
Letter On Human Nature and Sin
Letter On Realism and Redemption
Essay The Fiction Writer & His Country
Part Eight
Short Story Revelation
Letter On “Revelation” and Her Illness
Letter On Saint Raphael
Essay In the Devil’s Territory