Under what (if any) circumstances is the making of a myth justified?

[Mervin_Bitikofer]

@Christy

the main point of theodrama is not to provide us with a set of true propositions from which we can construct a systematic theology. The point is to shape ongoing reality and the participants in it toward its ordained eschatological end.

That seems quite sound to me … and it seems that your representative paragraph may need to (and did) suffice since the rest of his article is, for me, behind a CT registration wall.

Maybe for so many of us historically, part of the “shaping of ongoing reality” inspired by that theodrama is that it (and the heretical responses) inspired us to ‘create systematic theologies’.

Vanhoozer sounds fascinating. Your reference to cookies went over my head (since the shelves I can reach are empty I guess.) Do I get cookies if I read Vanhoozer?