Tolkien: Merry Eucatastrophe

MERRY CHRISTMAS
or in the words of J.R.R. TOLKIEN
MERRY "EUCATASTROPHE"

Welcome to the dawning of a new age.
Welcome to the season when "Myth becomes Truth"
J.R.R. Tolkien looked forward to Christmas with joy!
For him it was a time of Fantasy and happy endings.
He coined a word for Christmas --EUCATASTROPHE!
The "sudden glimpse of the underlying reality or truth"
with the ultimate "happy ending."

He believed that the birth of Christ was the EUCATASTROPHE (happy ending) of human history.

He believed that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was the EUCATASTROPHE (happy ending) of the incarnation (Christmas).

C.S. Lewis joins in and says that
"The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens — at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by debatable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to an historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate."
This is the meaning of Christmas.

Tolkien and Lewis anticipated the Post Modern Era.
They sensed the culmination of the Enlightenment,
the end of the Age of Reason, the doom of the Modern Era.
They understood that the Modern Scientific Age was limited.

The meaning of life could not be found in a scientific approach.
Rather, truth was best expressed in Fairy Tales and Myth.
Christmas was magic.
Christmas is "mystical" like a "fairy-story" said Tolkien.
Indeed so, and merry EUCATASTROPHE to you all.

What are your thoughts?
Do you think Christian faith should be couched in myth as CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien do?