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PRIEST, PROPHET, PILGRIM: TYPES AND DISTORTIONS OF SPIRITUAL VOCATION IN THE FICTION OF WENDELL BERRY AND CORMAC MCCARTHY Todd Edmondson May 14, 2011 This dissertation provides a reading of characters in the novels and short stories of two important contemporary American writers through the lens of spiritual theology. While spirituality has often been understood as necessitating a flight from the particular, the concrete, or the everyday, theologians such as Rowan Williams and Nicholas Lash have presented a more robust version of spirituality that understands the call to spirituality not as an invitation to flee from this world, but rather a vocation to a way of life that seeks reconciliation within this world, encountering and embracing God's presence within the contexts of such realities as corporeality, communities, and the crea~ed order as a whole. Such an understanding interrogates both ancient and modern forms of gnosticism that have often posed a threat to more orthodox forms of Christian spirituality. After constructing a theological framework rooted in the work of Williams, Lash, and others, I apply it to literature, arguing that the embodiment of these ideas, and therefore a demonstration of what Christian vocation might look like in

Priest, prophet, pilgrim : types and distortions of spiritual vocation in the fiction of Wendell Berry and Cormac McCarthy.