Editing Christian mythology (section)

===Modern period===
Some commentators have categorized a number of modern fantasy works as "Christian myth" or "Christian [[mythopoeia]]". Examples include the fiction of [[C. S. Lewis]], [[Madeleine L'Engle]], [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], and [[George MacDonald]].<ref>Hein, throughout</ref><ref group="n">An example of this kind of "mythopoeic" literary criticism can be found in Oziewicz 178: "What L'Engle's Christian myth is and in what sense her [[Time Quartet|''Time Quartet'']] qualifies as Christian mythopoeia can thus be glimpsed from both critical assessment of her work and her own reflection as presented in interviews and her voluminous non-fiction."</ref>

In ''The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden'', written in 1968, [[David W. Noble]] argued that the Adam figure had been "the central myth in the American novel since 1830".<ref name ="oleyar40-41"/><ref group="n">The full title of Noble's book is ''The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden: The Central Myth in the American Novel since 1830''.</ref> As examples, he cites the works of Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Hemingway, and Faulkner.<ref name ="oleyar40-41"/>