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Systematic Mythology: Imagining the Invisible
Humans are composed of poetic tissues as surely as physical ones. Our identities, worldviews, longings—all are drawn and developed from the unique relationships and texts we encounter and incorporate. We collect and imagine stories and creatively build them into the tale of ourselves.
But each of these personal mythologies is irrevocably lost at death—unless it is true, as Christianity claims, that God raises the dead.
Systematic Imagining the Invisible studies the ways in which we make meaning. It argues that God must be the ultimate subject of every person’s essential myth, so that Christ may redeem and resurrect our stories as well as our bodies. Systematic mythology calls us to consciously and creatively participate in the story God is telling through our cosmos and its a story in which Christ is all, and in all.
But each of these personal mythologies is irrevocably lost at death—unless it is true, as Christianity claims, that God raises the dead.
Systematic Imagining the Invisible studies the ways in which we make meaning. It argues that God must be the ultimate subject of every person’s essential myth, so that Christ may redeem and resurrect our stories as well as our bodies. Systematic mythology calls us to consciously and creatively participate in the story God is telling through our cosmos and its a story in which Christ is all, and in all.
140 pages, Paperback
Published October 12, 2018
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January 2, 2026
This book, originally the author’s Master’s thesis, resonates with me so deeply. I have become particularly interested in mythology, the mythology that is scripture and the mythologies of ancient cosmologies. As a Christian, I appreciate her beautiful and strong Christology.
While the entire book is wonderful, her tribute to her friend killed in Haiti a few years ago is exquisite. Iceland, January 2010: A Mythic Meditation. The author combines her new knowledge and love of the geography, language and culture of Iceland (where she was living at the time) with her focus on biblical mythology and vision of Christ, the Logos.
While the entire book is wonderful, her tribute to her friend killed in Haiti a few years ago is exquisite. Iceland, January 2010: A Mythic Meditation. The author combines her new knowledge and love of the geography, language and culture of Iceland (where she was living at the time) with her focus on biblical mythology and vision of Christ, the Logos.
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