Encountering God in Stories - Jonathan Pageau
Video from Jonathan Pageau
Encountering God in Stories - Jonathan Pageau
"The patterns in stories appear as their underlying order and also as a mode of human consciousness. We can encounter the Divine Logos in ancient stories and see how these patterns culminate in the story of Christ." from the video introduction
Timestamps:
00:00 – The world is made of stories
01:23 – How the invisible holds the visible together
03:49 – What makes something a story?
06:15 – Ad starts: God's Dog 3
07:10 – Ad ends: The universal pattern of stories
09:01 – How biblical stories hold the world together
10:37 – Moses and the pattern of the Tabernacle
13:13 – Christ as the Tabernacle encompassing the universe
15:22 – Patterns within patterns
18:03 – How the Old Testament points to Christ
19:50 – Cain and Abel as patterns of Christ
22:13 – The Eucharist reconciles opposing sacrifices
24:35 – Christ as the fulfilment of all stories
25:47 – The universal pattern of descent into the underworld
28:08 – Why similar myths don't disprove Christianity
30:33 – The Harrowing of Hades
32:50 – How Christ transforms the ancient pattern
35:29 – Seeing ancient myths through Christ
36:17 – How we encounter God in stories
37:51 – The danger of reducing Christ to our preferences
38:46 – Letting go of our limited image of Christ
40:13 – Encountering divine truth in unexpected places
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