of his cultivation of a godly way of life among the people of God; it was an effective tool for fostering faith and piety. The retelling became a key tool in what contemporary communication theorist Charlotte Linde calls “narrative induction”: “a process of being encouraged or required to hear, understand, and use someone else’s story as one’s own.”18 She defines this as “the process by which people come to take on an existing set of stories as their own story.” Memory, she contends, is “a social