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Podcast: Fantastical Truth
Episode: 51. Do Christians Really Need Fantasy? | Fiction’s Chief End, part 2
Description: In our last episode, we explored the fact that Christians actually need fiction as part of our daily lives. However, we could stop there and presume that we only need “realistic” stories, such as historical or contemporary fiction. Instead, we’ll explore how Christian readers also benefit from fantasy stories, so much that we could also say that we need stories about fantastical other worlds, in order to pursue our chief end of glorifying Jesus and enjoying him forever.
By “chief end,” we mean our highest purpose in God’s true story.
The phrase comes from the Westminster Shorter Cate...