Solon B. Cousins Lectures

 

The Christian Poets For Our Unpoetic Age

 with Dr. Ralph C. Wood
University Professor of Theology and Literature
Baylor University
Waco, Texas

 
Lectures

Tues. October 6, 2009     
                      10:00 a.m. - " George Herbert and the Poetry of Prayer"
                      7:00 p.m. - "G.K.Chesterton and the Poetry of Christmas"

Wed. October 7, 2009
                      10:00 a.m. - "Wendell Berry and the Poetry of Pastoral Life"

Virginia Hall Chapel, BTSR Campus, 3400 Brook Road, Richmond, Virginia


Dr. Wood holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Texas A&M University-Commerce, as well as M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. At Baylor, he teaches in both the Great Texts program and the Department of Religion. He serves as an editor-at-large for the
Christian Century and as a member of the editorial board of the Flannery O’Connor Review as well as VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review (devoted to the work of George MacDonald, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers and Owen Barfield). He is the author of several books including: The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists (Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, John Updike, and Peter De Vries); Contending for the Faith: The Church’s Engagement with Culture; The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth; Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South; Literature and Theology; Preaching and Professing: Sermons by a Teacher Seeking to Proclaim the Gospel.







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