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C.S. Lewis

Getting Readers on the Same Page about Aslan as Christ

January 14, 2007 Joseph Ravitts Comments Off on Getting Readers on the Same Page about Aslan as Christ

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. […]

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Narnia Film News

‘Caspian’ to qualify as U.K. movie

December 13, 2006 Paul Martin Comments Off on ‘Caspian’ to qualify as U.K. movie

Tarva2Alambil sent us a link to a story on Variety.com about Prince Caspian. It seems that all of the confusion recently about the filming locations is because of misunderstood comments, or poor communication of what was actually happening with regard to Britain. […]

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Editorials

The Right and Left Paws of Aslan

November 5, 2006 Joseph Ravitts Comments Off on The Right and Left Paws of Aslan

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. […]

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Editorial: Fighting Evil Is Not Deifying War

October 13, 2006 Joseph Ravitts Comments Off on Editorial: Fighting Evil Is Not Deifying War

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…. […]

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C.S. Lewis

Narnian-Biblical Corollaries

September 26, 2006 Joseph Ravitts Comments Off on Narnian-Biblical Corollaries

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. […]

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Editorial: A Divine Tactfulness

September 25, 2006 Joseph Ravitts Comments Off on Editorial: A Divine Tactfulness

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. […]