The Great Story is ultimately a Divine Comedy because it moves from misery toward blessedness.
Tragedy ends in death.
Epic can end ambiguously in glory, empire, or loss.
Romance culminates in union or restoration.
Comedy means the apparent catastrophe is finally gathered into joy.
- why the Christian Great Story is fundamentally comic rather than tragic;
- Resurrection as the reversal of tragedy; Eucatastrophe
- felix culpa;
- providential reversal;
- the Fool;
- divine irony;
- Revelation as the final transformation of tragedy into Comedy.