The community-forming narratives of the four Gospels do indeed work with archetypes (see chapter 10 above). However, their diversity implies the need to find a version of the Jesus story that “fits.” I love how the early church depicted the four canonical Gospels using the imagery of the four mythical beasts from Revelation 4:7. Each bears witness to Jesus, but in its own way. Mark roars like a lion. John soars like an eagle. Matthew, beginning with Jesus’ genealogy, has a human face. Luke, beginning in the temple, has the face of a sacrificial beast, the ox.489
