Boethius helped him find his “vocational” calling to create literary worlds that did not beat audiences with Christian facts but, rather, rendered atmosphere in which Christianity could be seen according to intelligentia. In fact, he felt that by creating a “world” in which Christianity could be breathed, as opposed to being only thought about, he could help remove some of the associations of religion with hushed tones and medical sterilization that he, as a child, had found so off-putting:
