I have been reading poems, romances, vision literature, legends, and myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know none of them are like this. Of this [gospel] text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage…or else, some unknown [ancient] writer…without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern novelistic realistic narrative.
– C.S. Lewis on reading the gospels
as quoted by Tim Keller, Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Reason, copyright 2008, page 106
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