Many years ago, during a late-night walk through Oxford’s beautiful Botanical Gardens, two men discussed whether the life and death of Christ was a fairy story. Both men agreed that indeed it was: one man, an atheist literature professor, averred that the life and death of Christ was no more than a fairy story, but the other, a Catholic philologist, argued that it was the one true fairy story, of which all other fairy stories were but pale shadows. The latter argument, proffered by J.R.R. Tolkien, won the day, and C.S. Lewis converted to Christianity.
