Tag: faith
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How I Came to See that the Bible is the Best Place to Find the Christian Story
Hector Klumpp here, bewildered after my ill advised agreement to do this big project of evaluating the Christian story through McKee’s eight stages of story, the obvious next question for me became – Where is the best place to find the Christians version of their story? That’s a big question for someone like me, who…
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The Power of Genre… or What Genre is the Christian Story?
I thought you may be interested in some of what I have learned about genres to help you understand the Christian story better. Shawn Coyne’s insights about the essential importance of genre shed light on the binary core value… So what’s the very first thing an editor or a writer needs to do? Well the…
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Stage Eight: The Climax
Wow! This has been quite a journey to arrive here, at the last of the stages in evaluating the Christian story. Will the Christian story disappoint on this most important final stage? Let’s find out. Here is McKee on the last of the Eight Stages of Story… At climax, the story’s final event changes the…
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Stage Seven: The Crisis
Stage 7 –looking at the Crisis in the Christian story is how this whole research project got started. My friends and I wondered, based on our first gander at what I’ve since determined is indeed the crisis in the Christian story, if the whole Christian story would or could be compelling. Back then I knew…
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The Gap and the Binary Core Values in the Christian Story
The Gap Here’s a short tutorial on a story concept McKee calls “The Gap”, and how it fits with the Binary Core Values in the Christian story. “The story lies in the gap between expectation and reality.” Robert McKee @McKeeStory, May 18 2016 What is the Gap? It is not a gap between what a…
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Stage Six: The Forces of Antagonism
Stage Five, then, was the first action. And now, Stage Six is the first reaction, or forces of antagonism… Reality suddenly violates the CORE CHARACTER’S expectation. Instead of getting a helpful reaction from his world, the protagonist finds that antagonistic forces very different from and more powerful than he anticipated rise up to block the…
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Stage Five: The First Action
While how the Christian story fits with stages 1-4 maybe was a bit more obvious, here at Stage Five, as we consider the Christian God’s first action, there’s a lot to consider … STAGE FIVE: THE FIRST ACTION PRIME PRINCIPLE: TACTICAL CHOICE To rebalance his life, the core character takes an action, a tactic designed…
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Stage One: The Audience
Welcome to my research, which came about when I insanely agreed to a dare from my wife and best friends, to evaluate the Christian story through Robert McKee’s Eight Stages of Story McKee laid out in his book, Storynomics. Before we go further, a giant shout out to Robert McKee! Okay, Let’s Jump Right In! Here’s…
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Is Jesus the Active Hero in a Love Story?
Love sure plays a big role in the Christian story, or so I’ve discovered as I’ve gone on the quest to evaluate the Christian story through McKee‘s 8 Stages of Story. Because of this, I believe the Christian story must at some level be considered to be of the Love Story genre. Shawn Coyne and…
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Exploring the Empathetic Incarnation and the Controlling Idea in the Christian Story
The Christian God took an action which weaves together the super-intention and the conscious object of desire we studied in Stage Four of McKee‘s eight stages of story in a very surprising way. God himself entersthe story… The Scripturesreveal to us that in this particular drama, the characters are created for aloving relationship with their…
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