True Myth: C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell on the Veracity of Christianity

James W. Menzies

True Myth: C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell on the Veracity of Christianity
Format
Paperback
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
26 February 2015
Pages
272
ISBN
9780718893767

True Myth: C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell on the Veracity of Christianity

James W. Menzies

True Myth examines the meaning and significance of myth as understood by C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell and its place in the Christian faith in a technological society. C.S. Lewis defined Christianity, and being truly human, as a relationship between the personal Creator and his creation mediated through faith in his son, Jesus. The influential writer and mythologist Joseph Campbell had a different perspective, understanding Christianity as composed of mythical themes similar to those in other religious and secular myths. While accepting certain portions of the biblical record as historical, Campbell taught the theological and miraculous aspects as symbolic - as stories in which the reader discovers what it means to be human today. In contrast, Lewis presented the theological and the miraculous in a literal way. Although Lewis understood how one could see symbolism and lessons for life in miraculous events, he believed they were more than symbolic and indeed took place in human history. In True Myth, James W.Menzies skilfully balances the two writers’ differing approaches to guide the reader through a complex interaction of myth with philosophy, media, ethics, history, literature, art, music and religion in a contemporary world.

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