#AllegoriesInLiterature

What Allegory Actually Does Christian literature has always done something more than tell stories. At its best it has used story to carry spiritual weight that argument alone cannot bear, presenting truths about faith, sin, redemption, and grace in forms that bypass intellectual resistance and lodge somewhere deeper. The vehicle for much of this work is allegory: a sustained narrative mode in which characters, events, and settings operate on two levels at once, the literal and the symbolic, each supporting…