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This paper aims at analyzing some Faulknerian characters in terms of three Christian worldviews such as fundamentalism, evangelicalism, and Calvinism. The former two regard this world and its culture as worthless or even harmful to their spiritual pilgrimage. The last, however, has a more positive and active perspective on this world. Percy Grimm, Simon McEachern and Doc Hines in Light in August represent religious fundamentalism, which is closely related to White
Supremacy. Reverend Hightower, in the same novel, can be called an evangelical, in that he
comes to make much of personal charity and sympathy. There is another group of Faulknerian
characters who exemplify Calvinism or the Reformed tradition. Bayard Sartoris in The
Unvanquished and Lucius Priest in The Reivers fight against corrupted social practices and
perform their duties to change their own communities into better ones.