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The 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".
A daily devotional reader to guide lovers of the Word through the
forty days of Lent and Easter, rich with spiritual insight from
leading Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox writers Explore the
meaning of Lent, its importance in spiritual formation, its
significance in the preparation for Easter, and throughout the holy
season of Christ's Resurrection. Leading North American spiritual
writers reflect on what one theologian has called the "bright
sadness" of Lent: that it is not about feeling broken and lost, but
about cleansing the palate so we can taste and live life more
fully. During Lent and Easter, we encounter the God who in all of
life is for us-for our liberation, for our healing, for our
wholeness. Even in death we can find resurrection. In God For Us
readers will find: - Daily readings with scriptures, meditations,
and prayers, beautiful edited by Greg Pennoyer and Gregory Wolfe -
One beloved spiritual writer featured each week Introduction: Fr.
Ronald Rolheiser, OMI Shrove Tuesday and the First Week of Lent:
Richard Rohr, OFM Second Week of Lent: Lauren F. Winner Third Week
of Lent: Scott Cairns Fourth Week of Lent: James Schaap Fifth Week
of Lent: Luci Shaw Holy Week and Easter: Kathleen Norris - Studies
throughout the forty days on "The Feasts and Fasts of Lent" by Beth
Bevis
Scott Cairns has carefully preserved every poem he's ever published
that he cares to preserve. He's also added previously unpublished
work, spanning three decades. A careful introduction by Gregory
Wolfe and tribute preface by Richard Howard make this the ultimate
collection of Cairns' work.
An anthology of stories exploring the spiritual realm, Peculiar
Pilgrims: Stories From the Left Hand of God, will take us on a
fascinating journey. Adventures in unorthodoxy, mysterious ways,
moments of unbounded, unexpected grace. Things you might not read
in Sunday School. The broad range of voices include those of John
Dalton, Melanie Rae Thon, Erin McGraw, Alice Mattison, Alice
Fulton, Lee Upton, Rose Rappoport Moss, Quinn Dalton, Jaimee
Wriston Colbert, and a host of others.
The title, Violent Grace, suggests a paradox. This pairing has
become an unexpected gateway into the astonishingly varied and
prolific artistic career of Edward Knippers. Violence conjures
images of aggression while grace has long been associated with
beauty, poise, or an unmerited gift, perhaps even a kind of
salvation. Within the ambiguity of this fertile paradox, the art of
Edward Knippers-which can initially shock and disturb-opens up into
something rich and rewarding. Our lives are reflected in the lives
of his biblical characters; we understand their message in our own
flesh and blood. Edward Knippers grapples with the perennial human
questions embedded in the Bible-a strenuous effort never satisfied
until it has extracted a blessing. This is the image of violent
grace. Drawn into the wrestling match, we come away wounded-and
blessed-by a passionate, unreasonable, overwhelming beauty.
In the second edition of "Sacred Passion," biographer Gregory
Wolfe chronicles the artistic career of William Schickel
(1919-2009) in the years since the original 1998 publication of
this book by the University of Notre Dame Press. There are two new
chapters, one on Schickel's recent contributions to the built
environment in several communities, and the other on his recent
paintings. There are 70 new color images, in addition to the 189
from the first edition, many of which have been replaced or
enhanced.
William Schickel was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1919 and
raised in Ithaca, New York. He graduated from the University of
Notre Dame in 1944. His graduation project was the sculptural
fountain "Living Water," now in the university's grotto. In a
consistently productive career spanning more than six decades,
Schickel has combined his skills as a sculptor, architectural
designer, furniture designer, stained-glass artist, and painter
with his deep personal faith to bring a healing vision to a number
of American communities. In addition to his many paintings and
ritual arts creations, Schickel's public works include the
renovation of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, for which he received
the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal Award; the
Duchesne Memorial Shrine in St. Charles, Missouri; the Miami Valley
Hospital Chapel in Dayton, Ohio; the "Rotunda of Creation" in the
Cincinnati Center for Health and Wellness; the renovation of the
Bellarmine Chapel in Cincinnati; the "Journeying with Christ" mural
in the St. John Neumann Church in Canton, Michigan; and the Larry
Hoffsis stained-glass window in the Epiphany Lutheran Church near
Dayton, Ohio.
Celebrating an artist of extraordinary faith, power, creativity,
and dedication, the second edition of "Sacred Passion" is a tribute
to William Schickel and his achievements.
"Here is an object--a book, a text, a generous portrait in
images--which speaks as a sacramental does, revealed here in the
chiasmic crossing between the contemporary and the ageless revealed
in William Schickel's paintings, stained glass, sculpture and
architecture, interwoven with the brilliance and sensitivity of
Greg Wolfe's text hovering over those images. Insofar as a book can
introduce us to the three- and four-dimensional world of the
sacred, this is that book. Light, stone, earth, air, fire, and
water: all fused here in the alembic of the contemporary Catholic
imagination." --Paul Mariani, Boston College
"One of my Franciscan Brothers used to say somewhat cynically to
his high school students that art will not save your soul, but it
can make your soul worth saving. I was reminded of these words in
reading Gregory Wolfe's book on William Schickel. Wolfe's
introduction to this important artist shows graphically how
Schickel in all of his art, but especially in his public
commissions, educates the heart by providing a sacred space where
people are drawn together by the clean simplicity of his spaces and
the images that he creates within those spaces. This is a book that
itself educates the heart through its journey into the sacred
passion of William Schickel." --Fr. Murray Bodo, OFM
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