More than Allegory

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Religious myth is often treated as a fork in the road: either it’s literal history, or it’s poetic fiction with a moral lesson. In More Than Allegory, Bernardo explores a third option: that myth can carry truth without being reducible to either crude literalism or “mere” symbolism, and that it may point to something genuinely transcendent without asking us to abandon reason.

You can find Bernardo's introduction to the book here:

Overview of More Than Allegory

This is the homepage of philosopher and computer scientist Bernardo Kastrup, with links to his biography and most of his works.

Bernardo Kastrup

In this Q&A, we’ll draw on the book’s three interwoven threads, myth, truth, and belief, to ask what religion might be doing in the psyche and in culture when it’s at its best. What would it mean for a myth to be “true” in a way that isn’t literal? How might our inner storytelling help crystallise the feel of a world and a history? And if belief has creative power, how do we relate to it responsibly, both individually and collectively?

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