Wednesday, August 03, 2022

The nature of story …

… Happy endings, tragedy, and futility | Brandywine Books  (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… The universe, it seems to me, is a story. Christians don’t believe that life is an eternal cycle, as many of the pagans did. We believe that history is a narrative. It has a beginning and an end. Tolkien declared that the Resurrection was the “eucatastrophe” (the happy, unexpected turn of events) of the story. The final happy ending awaits.

I agree. 

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