Anyone saw the movie? (Saw it yesterday)
Want to share what Christian theme(s) you identified in the CS Lewis show?
Want to share what Christian theme(s) you identified in the CS Lewis show?
Heinrich said:Yeah great story.
Btw C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien was friends!
And if I got it the right way around now -> Tolkien was the main person god used to lead Lewis to salvation!
TheWayOfTheMaster ministries has a huge thing on this Narnia using it for evangelism. kewl hey
wizeone said:I think its a great story, its a shame some of the fundies get their knickers in a knot about pagan imagery...
I never realised it was designed as an analogy for the christian fait, or at least deliberatly done. I read the books when I was younger and thought this sounds like what God did for us, but never realised it was a deliberate thing
Andrew said:Yes but funny thing was tht Tolkien was disappointed when CS Lewis became protestant instead of RC becos TK was RC.
Check out the definiation of analogy, "a comparison in in respect of things that are dissimilar, a comparison based on such similarity a form of inference based on the asumption that if two things are similar in some respects they must be alike in other respects"'. A piece of ficton and the story how Jesus christ came to redeem mankind, seeminly dissimilar things.......Quijote said:Just to clarify, the Narnia series are a Christian Allegory, not an analogy
wizeone said:Check out the definiation of analogy, "a comparison in in respect of things that are dissimilar, a comparison based on such similarity a form of inference based on the asumption that if two things are similar in some respects they must be alike in other respects"'. A piece of ficton and the story how Jesus christ came to redeem mankind, seeminly dissimilar things.......
Ok so maybe allegory fits better, but on looking at the definaition of analogy, I would say its close enough to what I was trying to convey... Could we stop being so damm retentive please
(C.S. Lewis. Of Other Worlds, p. 36)Some people seem to think that I began asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected information about child-psychology and decided what age group I'd write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out 'allegories' to embody them. This is all pure moonshine. I couldn't write that way at all. Everything began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. At first there wasn't even anything Christian about them[Chronicles of Narnia]; that element pushed itself in of its own accord.
ProAmerican said:Christian themes in Narnia?
Well, this may surprise some here:
(C.S. Lewis. Of Other Worlds, p. 36)