In a Christian context, we need stories such as the account of the fall of humanity in Genesis, dense symbols such as the cross of Christ, and Gospel depictions of a cosmic final judgment to articulate the ecstasies and agonies of our inner lives, account for the human experience of good and evil, and cultivate an ethical vision of a just society. Without access to mythic language capable of relating the finite to the eternal, this sort of robust description of human experience would be impossible.
