The Shocks and Shouts of Freakishness

The Nature of Being is the Third Implication of Incarnational Humanism

Of late, we have been considering three implications of viewing reality through the Incarnation. The reason for doing this is so we might better understand why Christian humanists like C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Flannery O’Connor used grotesque characters in their literature to engage the culture, specifically regarding the twentieth-century cri…