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The Passion of CS Lewis

Filed under: Newspaper Clippings — dhalgren at 9:40 am on Saturday, March 18, 2006

Just read this on the NY Review of Books. I think it nicely summarizes some of the more obvious problems with the Narnia books. The article also deals somewhat with the nature of Aslan which I think is crucial when it comes to understanding what God asks from us. Aslan does look a lot like what I would call a worldly, ie, reductive power figure. There is, in other words, no paradox, no confusion in God’s being, that would allow us freedom and possibility. Its theology for sunday school, not serious readers.

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Comment by Matthew

March 22, 2006 @ 5:18 pm

Interesting article. I appreciated the comparison of Tolkien and Lewis, and I did not know that Tolkien “hated” the Narnia books.

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