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Endnotes

1 C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1943, copyright renewed © 1980, pp. 162-63. 2 J. R. R. Tolkien. “On Fairy-Stories,” in Essays Presented to Charles Williams , ed. by C. S. Lewis. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1966), p. 81.

3 Ibid., p. 84.

4 Frederick Buechner. Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale . San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1977, p. 79-80.

5 See Appendix, The Nicene Creed with Biblical Support .

6 Please refer to the Appendix by Robert Webber and Philip Kenyon A Call to An Ancient Evangelical Future to see how the church today can rediscover the Story of the Kingdom in simple confession, worship, discipleship, and witness. 7 Please refer to the Appendix Going Forward by Looking Back: Toward an Evangelical Retrieval of the Great Tradition . 8 William J. Bausch, Storytelling and Faith . Mystic, Connecticut: Twenty-Third Publications, 1984. 9 Eugene Lowry and Frederick Buechner have both provided detailed understandings of the principle of reversal in the biblical story (see Eugene L. Lowry, Doing Time in the Pulpit Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985; Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale . San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1977). For a wonderful and rich discussion of the

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