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There is still much left to explore. Both men redefine the realm of the ''sacred'' outside the boundaries of the Church. They also redefine the profane, in language and belief. There are theological precedents, but much of organized religion finds such redefinition problematic, particularly fundamentalists. For Hemingway, the sacred is found particularly in the natural world—rumors maybe of the original Garden? In Mailer, I am not sure: maybe the sacred is found in the moral struggle—the eternal battle between God and the Devil.

''Indeterminacy'' and suspicion of rigid dogma are also at the heart of both men’s writing, as in Modernity itself. ''Grace,'' however, is a problem within{{pg|344|345}} modernity: “The world starves for grace,” says Yancey (40). But grace is a problem also for contemporary religion, as Bawer and Yancey demonstrate. Grace may have its antonym in Hemingway's ''nada'' or Mailer’s “absurdity” of life. Grace may be implicit in Mailer’s belief that, “stories bring order to the absurdity” (Mailer, Spooky 156–57). Good fiction, says Mailer, is “nourishing to our sense of reality” (Harlot’s 1288). Stories, after all, have always been part of our lives. Novelist and theologian Fred Buechner has said, “Listen to your life . . . in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace” (87). In this world of modernity, maybe it is through fiction and narrative that we still hear rumors of grace.

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 There is still much left to explore. Both men redefine the realm of the ''sacred'' outside the boundaries of the Church. They also redefine the profane, in language and belief. There are theological precedents, but much of organized religion finds such redefinition problematic, particularly fundamentalists. For Hemingway, the sacred is found particularly in the natural world—rumors maybe of the original Garden? In Mailer, I am not sure: maybe the sacred is found in the moral struggle—the eternal battle between God and the Devil.
+''Indeterminacy'' and suspicion of rigid dogma are also at the heart of both men’s writing, as in Modernity itself. ''Grace,'' however, is a problem within{{pg|344|345}} modernity: “The world starves for grace,” says Yancey (40). But grace is a problem also for contemporary religion, as Bawer and Yancey demonstrate. Grace may have its antonym in Hemingway's ''nada'' or Mailer’s “absurdity” of life. Grace may be implicit in Mailer’s belief that, “stories bring order to the absurdity” (Mailer, Spooky 156–57). Good fiction, says Mailer, is “nourishing to our sense of reality” (Harlot’s 1288). Stories, after all, have always been part of our lives. Novelist and theologian Fred Buechner has said, “Listen to your life . . . in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace” (87). In this world of modernity, maybe it is through fiction and narrative that we still hear rumors of grace.
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