RT Article
T1 Greek Myth and Christian Story: Articulating Christian Theology through C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces
JF Teologisk tidsskrift
VO 8
IS 4
SP 254
OP 266
A1 Aarflot, Christine
LA English
PB Universitetsforlaget
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1798127261
AB Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is one of C. S. Lewis’s last works of fiction. The book can be read as the rewriting of two different myths: The Greek Myth told in Apuleius’s The Golden Ass, and the Christian story, which Lewis himself considered a myth become fact. This article explores how a Christian theology of revelation and sacrifice is articulated through Lewis’s retelling. The article argues that revelation is always ambiguous because it is interpreted through its recipient, but also demonstrates how the demand for sacrifice can be understood as a divine act of love.
K1 C. S. Lewis
K1 The Golden Ass
K1 Till We Have Faces
K1 Revelation
K1 Sacrifice
DO 10.18261/issn.1893-0271-2019-04-05