Christianity: The True Fairy Story - Bourne again

Continuing the series entitled Christianity: The True Fairy-Story (part one, part two), I stumbled across a grand example relating the Bourne series to the Grand Story.

The Bourne Identity asks the existential question ("Who am I?") according to film critic Manohla Dargis (formerly at the Los Angeles Times). He says the second film, The Bourne Supremacy was moral – "What did I do wrong?" The third installment, The Bourne Ultimatum, is redemptive according to David Denby of The New Yorker. It addresses "How can I escape what I am?"2 These three questions are addressed and answered in the first three chapters of the "four-chapter" gospel.

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Jason Bourne may seem larger than life, but his story actually reflects an even bigger story. "The Bible tells a story that is the story, the story of which our human life is a part," wrote Lesslie Newbigin. "It is not that stories are part of human life, but that human life is part of a story."2 When we see these patterns in cinema reflected in Scripture, the seeming gap between "the world" and the Word of God shrinks.

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