out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.11 Even a faith that wants to testify and evangelize—as certainly O’Connor did—has to do so from this place. Indeed, consider the dramatis personae of religiously attuned literature over the past fifty years, from Graham Greene’s whisky priest to Walker Percy’s Dr. Thomas More to Evelyn Waugh’s Charles Ryder, even Marilynne Robinson’s Protestant pastor in Gilead: not a one matches the caricature
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