C.S. LEWIS: MYTH AND FACT Now as myth transcends thought, Incarnation transcends myth. The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. I happens – at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences… By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is miracle. I suspect that men have sometimes derived more spiritual sustenance from myths they did not believe than from the religion they professed. To be truly Christian we must both assent to the historical fact and also receive the myth (fact though it has become) with the same imaginative embrace which we accord to all myths. The one is hardly more necessary than the other… For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and obedience,…
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