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I've actually been very interested in the the general theme of the life of Faith. Outside of Pilgrim's Progress and maybe some works of C.S. Lewis like the Chronicles of Narnia this sort of metaphor seems a bit under utilized compared to the secular world and especially the New Age (Where there are lots of self help books that use it etc.).
Anyway for those of you familiar with Joseph Campbell's work, like the Heroes Journey, and mono-myth in general what do you think of adapting it for Christian story telling? especially in the self help arena?
Here's an example of what I'm talking about (in the Christian context)
The Hero’s Journey as Divine Blueprint
PS - I am not talking about strict Jungian Psychology for folks that want to rebut the idea based on that kind of objection (since liberal theologians in the past have embraced it for those reasons).
for folks that like videos here is a short little one based on the general concept.
PPS - I don't think this pattern of formula is useful for looking at the life of Christ, but it does fit people like Moses, and Gideon, and other folks of the Bible and I think it is a nice concept when people talk about problems like Theodicy aka "Why did God allow this bad thing to happen to me?"
Anyway for those of you familiar with Joseph Campbell's work, like the Heroes Journey, and mono-myth in general what do you think of adapting it for Christian story telling? especially in the self help arena?
Here's an example of what I'm talking about (in the Christian context)
The Hero’s Journey as Divine Blueprint
PS - I am not talking about strict Jungian Psychology for folks that want to rebut the idea based on that kind of objection (since liberal theologians in the past have embraced it for those reasons).
for folks that like videos here is a short little one based on the general concept.
PPS - I don't think this pattern of formula is useful for looking at the life of Christ, but it does fit people like Moses, and Gideon, and other folks of the Bible and I think it is a nice concept when people talk about problems like Theodicy aka "Why did God allow this bad thing to happen to me?"
