Systematic Mythology: Imagining the Invisible
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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 Mythology: 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 inhabitants: a story in which Christ is all, and in all.
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“Systematic Mythology is a brilliant book that will
appeal to lovers of sound Christian doctrine who also find the
fiction of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L’Engle to
be greatly edifying. Why that should be is brought out by Agee with
consummate clarity.”
—John Hobbins, pastor, Zion Lutheran Church of Oshkosh
“In this deeply original book, Jennifer Agee holds orthodoxy up to
the ancient light of myth and the Christian narrative shines
anew—abstraction is replaced by concreteness; analysis is joined by
imagination; and new worlds of meaning spring up all round the
reader. Systematic Mythology bears all the creativity of the
monotheistic myth toward which it calls us, yet never loses sight
of tradition.”
—Paul Wallace, author of Stars Beneath Us
“Both winsome and incisive, Agee’s exposition of systematic
mythology parses logos and mythos in a manner that
would have delighted Barfield and given Arnold pause for thought.
Her arguments will evoke revaluations of Joseph Campbell, and incur
excellent classroom dialogue. I already have a page of quotations
to share with colleagues—tastes of a book which challenges
intellect and imagination alike, both academically and
personally.”
—Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson, freelance writer and lecturer
Product Details
- Title : Systematic Mythology: Imagining the Invisible
- Author: Agee, Jennifer
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Publication Date: 2018
- ISBN: 9781532648182
Jennifer Agee is a freelance editor. Her MA is from Wartburg
Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. Systematic Mythology
is her first book.