Factual Myth, the Legend of Faith

March 09, 2016 by Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson

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As professors, Lewis and Tolkien introduced their students to this rich Christian literary tradition that the Church was forgetting — a passion for truth in shared stories, regardless of genre, and a recognition of a richness found only in conversation forged across the ages. As authors of fiction and fantasy they became participants in that mythopoeic practice. As Christians committed to a factually virgin birth, a resurrected Christ, and a Triune God, they believed that the Christian religion is myth — gloriously factual myth — filled with truths that can lend depth and richness to all other myths that come before and aft.

Heresy to that apoplectic prof, but for Lewis and Tolkien without myth there simply is no Christian faith.

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