Gregory Wolfe

Operation of Grace the Gregory Wolfe

Further Essays on Art Faith and Mystery. The Operation of Grace collects a decades 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 anotherart deepening faith through the empathetic reach of the imagination and faith anchoring art in a vision beyond the artists ego. Several essays dwell on how aesthetic values like