Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call ‘real things’

[soso]

Letter to Arthur Greeves: from The Kilns (on his conversion to Christianity), 18 October 1931

Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: 

a myth /working on us /in the same way as the others, 

but with this tremendous different //that it really happened: 

and one must be content to accept it in the same way,

 remembering that it is God’s myth //where the others are men’s myths:

 i.e. the Pagan stories are God /expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images /as He found there, 

while Christianity is God /expressing Himself through what we call ‘real things’. 

Therefore it is true, not in the sense of being a ‘description’ of God (that no finite mind could take in) 

but in the sense of being the way //in which God chooses to (or can) appear to our faculties. 

[The ‘doctrines’ () we get out /of the true myth] are of course less true:

they are the translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in a language more adequate, 

namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. 

Does this amount to a belief in Christianity? 

At any rate I am now certain 

(a) That this Christian story is to be approached, in a sense, as I approach other myths.

 (b) That it is the most important and full of meaning. 

I am also nearly certain that it really happened…

From Letters of C. S. Lewis