Twentieth-century British modernist writer Virginia Woolf lifelong critical stance towards organized religion raises the question of whether her use of Christian imagery in her 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway merely parodies and critiques what she saw as an obsolete, oppressive religion. Further probing into Woolf’s biography reveals that she was more open to less dogmatic forms of Christian spirituality such as the Quakerism her aunt espoused. In light of this, the religious imagery in Mrs. Dalloway seems to function as an attempt to explore a new spirituality outside the oppressive confines of institutional Christianity as exemplified in the Church of England. Woolf explores this spirituality through the characters of Septimus Smith and Clarissa Dalloway, who function together in a sort of dual role as a Christ-figure within the novel. Woolf also explores the type of institutional religion she rejects in the form of the overbearing religious zealot Doris Kilman. The characters of Septimus, Clarissa, and Miss Kilman, however, all suffer from a conflict between the spiritual and the material realms. This paper seeks to explore how this distinction does not take into account the Christian doctrine of the incarnation where body and spirit are intertwined. A reading of the text with this in mind reveals how Woolf, and by extension her characters, fails to reconcile the spiritual with the material. By revealing how this false distinction permeates the novel, I hope to explore just how deeply this idea can affect people’s thoughts and actions. More specifically, I hope to show how, within this distinction, either spiritual or material salvation can only come at the expense of the other, revealing a need for a spirituality which reconciles the two realms. Beyond Mrs. Dalloway, I hope that this paper will remind readers just how radical a doctrine the incarnation is.