{"product_id":"the-operation-of-grace-further-essays-on-art-faith-and-mystery-hardcover","title":"The Operation of Grace: Further Essays on Art, Faith, and Mystery - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Operation of Grace collects a decade's worth of essays by Gregory Wolfe taken from the pages of Image, the literary journal he founded more than a quarter century ago. As he notes in the preface, his Image editorials, while they cover a wide range of topics, focus on the intersection of \"art, faith, and mystery.\" Wolfe believes that art and religion, while hardly identical, offer illuminating analogies to one another--art deepening faith through the empathetic reach of the imagination and faith anchoring art in a vision beyond the artist's ego. Several essays dwell on how aesthetic values like ambiguity, tragedy, and beauty enlarge our understanding of the spiritual life. There are also a series of reflections that extend Wolfe's campaign to renew the neglected and often misunderstood tradition of Christian humanism. Finally, there are sections that contain more personal meditations arising from Wolfe's involvement in nurturing and promoting the work of emerging writers and artists. The Operation of Grace demonstrates once again why novelist Ron Hansen has spoken of Wolfe as \"one of the most incisive and persuasive voices of our generation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Wolfe is editor of \u003ci\u003eImage\u003c\/i\u003e, one of America's leading quarterly journals. He serves as Writer in Residence and Director of the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program at Seattle Pacific University. His literary imprint, Slant Books, is published by Wipf \u0026amp; Stock. Wolfe's books include \u003ci\u003eBeauty Will Save the World, Intruding upon the Timeless, Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel\u003c\/i\u003e. He has served as a judge for the National Book Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 27, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431423000754,"sku":"9781498284707","price":43.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ce6dcbbb51efc9e73357beb9163204fb.webp?v=1778590003","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-operation-of-grace-further-essays-on-art-faith-and-mystery-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}