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        <title><![CDATA[In Catholic theology incarnation means "the Word made flesh."  It is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Catholic theology incarnation means "the Word made flesh."  It is God's "emptying Himself" to become a man, to suffer and die to redeem mankind.  O'Connor moves her characters to work backwards from lives of evil toward a fundamental belief in the incarnation, as if they were experiencing it in its origin.
O'Connor's fiction is implicitly messaged from a believer and explicitly styled and aimed at nonbelievers. In O'Connor, we find a...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[ 
I'm not sure O'Connor based her novel around biblical allusions so...]]></title>
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I'm not sure O'Connor based her novel around biblical allusions so much as a parody of the blinding of Saul, or St. Paul (Acts 8 &amp; 9).  More importantly, the novel lovingly parodies Thomism, Calvinism, and existentialism to form a pastiche that, as a whole, functions as a polemic against watered-down "civil religion."
As novelist Walker Percy says in The Last Gentleman (1999), "Do you think it is possible to come to Christ through...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:23:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What parts of the Bible does O'Connor make use of in Wise Blood?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What parts of the Bible does O'Connor make use of in Wise Blood?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:56:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[For Christians "incarnation" is the belief that Jesus Christ is God.  I...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For Christians "incarnation" is the belief that Jesus Christ is God.  I think O'Connor meant her  statement to be somewhat  ironic.  The phrase "God is Dead" was in common use by the early  to mid 1960's and a Time Magazine cover story of that era was titled "Is God Dead ? ".  Most of her writing was done before this, but it was in the air following WW II.
O'Connor meant that the people most apt to read her writing were those who were...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 13:19:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Flannery O'Connor means by the ultimate reality is the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Flannery O'Connor means by the ultimate reality is the incarnation?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:30:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As mentioned in the previous excellent answer, the themes of God and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As mentioned in the previous excellent answer, the themes of God and religion and materialism and corruption are major in Wise Blood; however, there are also themes of moral corruption, change and transformation, free will, flesh vs. spirit, conscience, appearances and reality, and the American dream.&nbsp; Enotes explores all of these themes, in depth, at the link below.&nbsp; Sometimes a reader may view one or more of these to be the major...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:23:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the main theme of the book Wise Blood? ]]></title>
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