This essay presents the case that Sayers was a cautious transformationalist. The church must influence morality, but not get tied to the moralistic aspects of cultural institutions. Accordingly, Sayers believed the Church must do the impossible: without becoming identified with cultural institutions, it must redeem those institutions. The first effectively privatizes Christianity and the second denatures it. She saw withdrawing from the culture and becoming one with the culture as a pair of matched dangers. Based on a speech delivered to the Archbishop of York’s conference in Malvern, 1941, it appears Sayers had something like a transformationalist view according to Niebuhr’s model.
Her greatest gift to history, however, is the application of a faithful concept of vocation to her art. Sayers is most famous for her detective fiction, particularly the mystery novels involving Lord Peter Wimsey.
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