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*Just before 3am on the Sunday morning of the 20th September,1939, Tolkien, Lewis and another Inkling, Hugo Dyson, took a stroll along the Cherwell in the grounds of Magdalen College. All the previous evening the men had been discussing their lifelong fascination with myths. It was sad, Lewis declared, to think that classic tales of courage, beauty, sacrifice and virtue are all untrue and ultimately worthless.
Tolkien stopped his skeptical friend cold by forcefully arguing: No! They are not lies! Myths contain great spiritual truths.
Lewis recalled later in a letter to a friend that whilst walking we were: “… interrupted by a rush of wind which came so suddenly on the still, warm evening and sent so many leaves pattering down that we thought it was raining. We held our breath…” *
A meditation by Communio’s Sr. Editor Adrian Walker on the nature of the “extra-biblical mythology and religion that engages in the unfolding of our ‘innate symbolic nature that constitutes it from the creation of the world.’” He traces how Benedict XVI’s embraces a version of J. R. R.Tolkien’s and C. S. Lewis’ idea that Christianity is the one “true myth” that fulfills man’s natural religiosity.
And further shows us how the Risen One’s glorified body is not just the supreme masterpiece of the Holy Spirit, but is also the medium through which he communicates this same Creator Spirit to mankind (cff Acts 2:32-41). This is the foundation of “canonical exegesis” itself, which fixes its gaze upon Christ, dead and risen, as the focal point around which Scripture has both its being and its intelligibility. The practitioner of canonical exegesis has to rely on the Holy Spirit to lead him, through the letter of the Scriptures, to an encounter with Christ, dead and risen. And he draws his understanding of the Bible precisely from the Holy Spirit, whom he receives through an encounter with the risen Lord through the pages of Holy Writ.
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*Just before 3am on the Sunday morning of the 20th September,1939, Tolkien, Lewis and another Inkling, Hugo Dyson, took a stroll along the Cherwell in the grounds of Magdalen College. All the previous evening the men had been discussing their lifelong fascination with myths. It was sad, Lewis declared, to think that classic tales of courage, beauty, sacrifice and virtue are all untrue and ultimately worthless.
Tolkien stopped his skeptical friend cold by forcefully arguing: No! They are not lies! Myths contain great spiritual truths.
Lewis recalled later in a letter to a friend that whilst walking we were: “… interrupted by a rush of wind which came so suddenly on the still, warm evening and sent so many leaves pattering down that we thought it was raining. We held our breath…” *
A meditation by Communio’s Sr. Editor Adrian Walker on the nature of the “extra-biblical mythology and religion that engages in the unfolding of our ‘innate symbolic nature that constitutes it from the creation of the world.’” He traces how Benedict XVI’s embraces a version of J. R. R.Tolkien’s and C. S. Lewis’ idea that Christianity is the one “true myth” that fulfills man’s natural religiosity.
And further shows us how the Risen One’s glorified body is not just the supreme masterpiece of the Holy Spirit, but is also the medium through which he communicates this same Creator Spirit to mankind (cff Acts 2:32-41). This is the foundation of “canonical exegesis” itself, which fixes its gaze upon Christ, dead and risen, as the focal point around which Scripture has both its being and its intelligibility. The practitioner of canonical exegesis has to rely on the Holy Spirit to lead him, through the letter of the Scriptures, to an encounter with Christ, dead and risen. And he draws his understanding of the Bible precisely from the Holy Spirit, whom he receives through an encounter with the risen Lord through the pages of Holy Writ.
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