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Ross Douthat on Narrative and Religion (Live at Mason)
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Influence of Storytellers on Western Theology
Well-educated intellectual Christians in the West, especially in the United States, have been heavily influenced by storytellers such as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, and Chesterton's father Brown stories. These narratives often shape worldviews more profoundly than polemical or argumentative writings, indicating a significant insight into a unique way of thinking about God and theology suggested by the structure of revelation. The concept of life as the epic of heaven, akin to the Iliad or the Odyssey of Heaven, adds a powerful and resonant dimension to this perspective.
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