그레엄 그린과 플래너리 오코너: 소설과 현대신학

Abstract

Graham Greene is different from Flannery O'Connor in many ways. Greene enjoyed travelling internationally, and O'Connor was mostly confined to Georgia. Whereas she wrote novellas and short stories, he was good at novels. O'Connor liked grotesque characters and violence. Greene, however, preferred to portray ordinary human life. Greene, a converted Catholic, was unease with dogma, but O'Connor, a born Catholic, vindicated it. Nevertheless, they have a common denominator that they are Catholic writers. Particularly, it attracts critical attention that both of them read avidly modern theologians. Greene could not stay at ease within the pale of Christian orthodoxy that he turned to modern theologians. O'Connor hearkened to them who put emphasis on concrete human experience as she did as a novelist. It is ironical that O'Connor who advocated Christian orthodox belief preferred liberal theologians. It is understandable, however, that Greene and O'Connor who had to present concrete reality and human sensual experience to reveal mystery in their work liked modern theologians who advanced “the theology from below.” Such a common factor of concrete experience in novel and modern theology led them to join together in the work of Greene and O'Connor.