Image and Story

Postmodern culture is image driven. The modern world was word-based. Its theologians tried to create an intellectual faith, placing reason and order at the heart of religion. Mystery and metaphor were banished as too fuzzy, too mystical, too illogical. After forfeiting to the media the role of storyteller, the church now enters a world where story and metaphor are at the heart of spirituality.
- Leonard Sweet, Post-Modern Pilgrims