Needless to say, on the other side of the church-state-secular-world-divide, some people do not want the movie identified with a Christian message. The Last Battle the coming of the Antichrist (the Ape), the end of the world and the Last Judgment.” ** “Not Just a Good Yarn.” The Silver Chair the continuing war with the powers of darkness. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the spiritual life (especially in Reepicheep). The Horse and His Boy the calling and conversion of a heathen. Prince Caspianrestoration of the true religion after corruption.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Crucifixion and Resurrection.

The Magician’s Nephew tells the Creation and how evil entered Narnia.

I pictured Him becoming a lion there because (a) the lion is supposed to be the king of beasts (b) Christ is called ‘The Lion of Judah’ in the Bible (c) I’d been having strange dreams about lions when I began writing the work. Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here. That is to say, I asked myself ‘Supposing that there really was a world like Narnia and supposing it had (like our world) gone wrong and supposing Christ wanted to go into that world and save it (as He did ours), what might have happened?’ The stories are my answers.

When you have read that, I think you will probably see that there is a deeper meaning behind it. Read the earlier book in this series called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and you will find the full story of how he was killed by the White Witch and came to life again. “What Aslan meant when he said he had died is, in one sense plain enough. Jill cannot understand what she has just seen, so Aslan explains that Caspian had died and so had he. Aslan, Eustace, and Jill are in Aslan’s Country and they have just witnessed the restoration of the dead King Caspian to full life and youthful vigor. Anne seems to have written Lewis about a scene from Chapter XVI, ‘The Healing of Harms,’ in The Silver Chair. It is in one of Lewis’ last letters (March 5, 1961) to an older child, Anne, that Lewis most fully explains his intentions for The Chronicles of Narnia. His books including The Chronicles of Narnia have been read by 100 million people, many of whom have seen a deeper truth in them. His radio programs reached millions and galvanized a new revival in the 1940s in the United Kingdom during World War II. Lewis was the great Christian apologist of the 20th Century. An atheist from boyhood, he converted at age 33 to Christianity and devoted much of the rest of his life to writing about faith.Ĭ.S. Lewis in the 1950s, when he was a high-powered Oxford professor and perhaps the 20th Century’s most famous convert to Christianity. The Chronicles of Narnia series was written by C.S.

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