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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

‘Christ Plays’ p. 11-26

Kathy (who is loath to be cited, but makes contributions that cannot go unmentioned) began by quoting Peterson’s superb line on page 13: “Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.” The line is worth quoting in context:

Story is the most natural way of enlarging and deepening our sense of reality, and then enlisting us as participants in it. Stories open doors to areas or aspects of life that we didn’t know were there, or had quit noticing out of over-familiarity, or supposed were out-of-bounds to us. They then welcome us in. Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

 

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Posted by Nathan Bierma on 05/25 at 04:39 PM
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