Better late than never, it’s Into the Wardrobe’s bit Comic-Con Report, talking about the Disney presentation and the adventure there at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con. Let’s get to it! […]
Every Christian (except for those pharisaic types who call all fantasies uniformly demonic) is willing to recognize Aslan at least as embodying the personality traits of Jesus; but in spite of such powerful narrative clues as Aslan taking the form of a LAMB in addition to that of a lion, many balk at agreeing that Mr. Lewis meant Aslan unequivocally to BE Jesus, the same Jesus Who is found in the New Testament. […]
Much of the damage done in this world is done by people who don’t exactly mean to rebel against God–they just figure they have a better idea. And even in the peripheral zones of human creativity, it can happen that people make “improvements”–which AREN’T…. The existing Narnia movie, while I would have done a few things differently, does NOT feature any alterations or expansions which I would consider damaging…I am, for the record, confident that the future films WILL be done right, and that I will have no serious complaints. But perhaps it wouldn’t hurt to imagine (and so be forewarned against) some “anti-improvements” which could occur if scripts for the follow-on movies were to be written by writers who DON’T appreciate the vision of Mr. Lewis. “Prince Caspian” being already scripted, I’ll start with “Dawn Treader.”
The idea of a “left wing” and “right wing” in politics and society is a fluid one, subject to a lot of confusion. You can’t understand liberals unless you know what they want to liberate, and you can’t understand conservatives unless you know what they want to conserve….It may help us toward clarity if I attempt, presupposing what I think to be reasonable modern definitions of the left and right, to identify some places in The Chronicles Of Narnia where C.S. Lewis expressed sometimes liberal ideas, and sometimes conservative ones. […]
A participant in this forum has complained that the Narnia movie departs from “the essence of Christianity,” and that it glorifies war. This person goes further by claiming that the “deification of war” is particularly associated with “right-wingers.”
Let me dismiss first the most easily dismissed contention…. […]
Here’s an editorial that columnist Joseph Ravitts sent to me a while back. I decided that now was as good a time as any to post it! Here, he delves into C.S. Lewis’ writing of Narnia and Philip Pullman’s criticisms of the works. MAJOR SPOILER WARNING, DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU’VE READ ALL OF THE CHRONICLES […]
While Aslan flat-out IS Jesus Christ, many other characters in the Narnian stories can be called _analogies_ to something in the Bible.
However far his inventiveness ranged, Mr. Lewis did not forget about Scripture. […]
There are Narnia fans, on the explicitly Christian side of the house, who are just a little uneasy about elements in the recent movie which seemed, if only slightly, to diminish Aslan’s status as Deity. To them I would say, “Have confidence in Douglas Gresham’s hand at the helm.” I believe that Mr. Gresham, and those who pay heed to him, are trying to be diplomatic about Aslan’s identity as Christ. What I mean by that–what I believe they have in mind–is something with Scriptural precedent. […]
Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is a regular contributor to several Christian publications, is in wide demand as a speaker at conferences, and is the author of over 45 books including the excellent Handbook of Christian Apologetics which is WELL worth the read. It is just incredible. […]
This is an editorial about the upcoming release of “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Special Extended DVD Edition” that Andrew Adamson mentioned on the audio commentary of the DVD. […]
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