Episode Details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg8s7WtwPf0

God As The Monomyth Storyteller

The term “myth” has a colloquial understanding of being made up or fake. But that’s not the true meaning of the word. Myths are stories told in a worldview used to relay information to a group and that story is made to stick. This universal concept derives itself from God. God as the monomyth Storyteller sets up our theodicy to explain why evil exists.

Looking at societies and tribes and even families and neighborhoods, humanity to a source of storytellers. We have more books today than at any other point in time because we have not yet run out of stories to tell. Science fiction informs our ideas of the future while relating to the reader of today. Fantasy gives us tales of adventure and mystery with the spice of magic. Even our factual based stories of war and politics are not told in a mundane way. The facts are accompanied with hopefully a good story. Taking the fun out of history is the job of schools.

Man is a storyteller by nature. With the Christian worldview, we know that we get our nature from God. In God’s communicative character, we find Him as our ultimate Storyteller. And in His story, there are bad guys and evil afoot.

Timeline:

00:00 – Introduction
01:53 – Stories Are Primal For Man – And God
10:38 – The Truth Of Mythic Stories
18:43 – True Myths
22:22 – The Emerging Monomyth
29:04 – Conclusion

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep162/

Books mentioned in this episode:

What about Evil? A Defense of God’s Sovereign Glory by Scott Christensen
Kindle – https://amzn.to/2UeV3tt
Hardcover – https://amzn.to/3xGsxP6
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ChristianBook Link

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