Eucatastrophe: a sudden joyous
turn in a dark tale—the happy ending "a piercing glimpse of joy...that for a moment...rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through."
“The Gospels contain a
fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces the essence of
fairy-stories. They contain many marvels—particularly artistic, beautiful, and
moving: ‘mythical’ in their perfect, self-contained significance; and among the
marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe. But this
story has entered History and the primary world; the desire and aspiration of
sub-creation has been raised to the fulfillment of creation.
