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God as Tale, the tale of all the tales,
the first and last tale, the tale-framework that every tale
shapes and moulds again. Believing in God is believing in
the narrative form, that the world takes, when the evil
destroys the human, too human masks (a covenanter, a healer,
a father), representing the principle (archè), which
sustains our hope. Christ (the narrated story-teller, who
invites us to imitate him) reveals that such a principle
has the same nature of a story. His story is the Gospel,
i.e. the good story (eu-angèlion) spelt by God. And
it is a story because it is an unified sequence of events
(actions, words, facts), a sequence so interesting (happy
and worthy) to us that we are invited to believe that the
whole being is interested to us. Ethical theories, metaphysical
thinking and philosophical concepts are rooted in narratives,
that we trust, and that link the symbols of good attracting
our desire and offering reasons to justify our moral evaluations. |