When we try to make sense of the world, narrative is everything. And when we tell the story of theology in late modernity, we underestimate at our peril how important the stories are that surround the practice. Is Theologia the beleaguered and aging protagonist, striving valiantly but perhaps in futility to keep up with Science…
Tag: realism
Against Allegory
For the last several years, I’ve been teaching the Honors Introduction to Literature course at my small Christian college. It has traditionally been taught as an introduction not to literature in general but to specifically Christian literature, and I do not rock the boat, at least not in this case. One of the things my…