A Landscape With Dragons by O'Brien Michael

Author:O'Brien, Michael [O'Brien, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Spiritual & Religion
ISBN: 9780898706789
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2011-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter VI

The Restoration of Christian

Storytelling

Because the Holy Spirit is always pouring out life upon God’s people, we must never succumb to the temptation to think that the false culture has won. Despite its apparent powers, its noise, and its glamor, it is a moribund system that has not much longer to live. At every moment Jesus stands ready to restore the world and ourselves to the Father. That restoration will necessarily entail a regaining of our courage and a willingness to respond to the promptings of the Spirit, regardless of the odds that seem stacked against us.

A regeneration of Christian culture is not only possible, it is our responsibility. We bear witness to the greatest story of all, a story that, as Chesterton said, fulfills man’s greatest needs. In The Everlasting Man, he pointed out that “the sanity of the world was restored and the soul of man offered salvation by something which did indeed satisfy the two warring tendencies of the past; which had never been satisfied in full and most certainly never satisfied together. It met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.”1

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