The Storyline of a Life Works

A kind of hyper rationality and a kind of hyper abstraction isn't just deficient in terms of persuasion. It doesn't give you a right sense of what's going on. So it's the difference between what Walker Percy talks about as receiving news and hearing information. If you're a castaway on an island, you may know information about the island ecosystem that is very different from receiving a message in the bottle that says to you there's an outside world. Those are two completely different experiences. And that's what the biblical storyline does. It evokes something in either direction,. In the opening chapters of the New Testament, of the Gospels, for instance. You have fear taking place in Herod