Incarnation Transcends Myth

"It is the myth that gives life." So says C. S. Lewis. In "Myth Became Fact," he describes the Christian faith as the fulfillment of what the great pagan myths groped after. The Christian story, in other words, is the true myth, making concrete, clear, and present what the pagans had perceived only dimly and distantly. "We must not be ashamed of the mythical radiance resting on our theology," Lewis writes. "We must not be nervous about 'parallels' and 'pagan Christs'; they ought to be there -- it would be a stumbling block if they weren't."