![]() The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. “Now as myth transcends thought, Incarnation transcends myth. ![]() Lewis realized that what lay behind pagan mythology was one grand story being told and proclaimed by them all, and that story had been realized as historical fact in the life and work of Jesus Christ. Indeed, while this methodological point is one which many do not realize that Lewis held, it is central to Lewis’ own re-conversion to Christianity and the common belief Lewis shared with his friend and co-mythopoet, Tolkien. ![]() Thus, Lewis gives us in Till We Have Faces his theological ideals reworked so as to be placed under a completely pagan veil. By the time he wrote Till We Have Faces, he came to understand that the best way to reach modern humanity was not to bludgeon them with Christian symbolism, but to reach them from the common moral and religious heritage that Christians inherited from the pagans. This is not to say that Lewis in this work does not provide for us a Christian message he most certainly does. Lewis were telling the Christian message in a thinly-veiled allegory. ![]() ![]() Unlike The Chronicles of Narnia, one does not feel as if C.S. It gathers together the diversity of his theological contributions into one highly enjoyable story. Lewis's Till We Have Faces could be seen as his greatest theological work. Despite being his most neglected novel, C.S. ![]()
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